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A HISTORY 

OF THOMAS AND ANNE 

BILLOPP FARMAR 

And Some of Their 
Descendants in America 



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CONTENTS 



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Preface ... . . . ix 

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I. The Early Pakmahs ...... 1 

II. The Billopps ....... 15 

Captain Christopher Billopp, Royal Navy . 17 

Joseph Billopp ...... 30 

III. Chief-. hsTK k Tn<>\i \» I'mimak, tiik 1 <n nder . 81 

IV. Captain Jasper 1 Farmab and His Sun. Majob Jai 

PKU I'AIIMAK ...... IS 

Captain Jasper Farmar ..... 45 

Major Jasper 8 Farmar . . . .49 

V. Major Thomas 1 Billopp and Solfl DBS4 1 ffDAVM 51 

Major Thomas Billopp ..... 53 

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher 1 Billopp 

Thomas 4 Billopp 62 

Mary Lawrence'' Billopp ..... 64 

Prances' 1 (Billopp) Wyatt and Descendants . 64 

Thomas Farmar" Billopp ..... 68 

VI. Major Robert 2 Farmar and Descendants . 73 
Major Robert Farmar . . . .75 

Descendants of Anne Billopp 3 Farmar . . 83 

Robert Adolphus 3 Farmar ..... f)0 

Descendants of Robert Adolphus 3 Farmar . . 93 

Appendix ......... 99 

Major Robert Farmar . . . . .101 

The Fall of Pensacola, 1781, . .110 

Index . . . . . • • • .115 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Arms of Fermob (a facsimile reproduction of an 

old print.) ...... Fronstispiece 



Charles Farmah Billopp ..... 

View of Easton Nksto.n from the From i 

ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN tiii: FrIOATEI " QuEBl 1KB 

" Surveillante " (from .id old engraving 
BsNTLEY Manor ....... 

The Chapel at Baston Neston .... 

Rear View ok Kaston Neston .... 

Monument \t Puebto CabellOj Venezuela 
Captain Thomas Billopp (reproduced from a ininiatui 
The Reverend Thomas Billopp .... 

Major Robert Farmab (reproduced from a painting) 



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PREFACE 

It was not the intention of the writer of this little book, when 
the work was conceived, to make more than the veriest sketch 
of the principal members of the ancient and honorable Far- 
mar family. But, as in his researches so many incidents, 
intensely interesting, were discovered which he believed his 
relatives and connections, who have the Farmar blood in their 
veins, would be equally desirous and laudably curious to know. 
he could not find it in his power to deny tin in that privilege. 

He has found it very difficult to separate legend and tradi- 
tion from authentic history, and in his endeavor to winnow the 
true from the false, he has been compelled to ignore numerous 
very interesting and pretty tali s, which in his opinion were 
too highly colored with romance. He believes, however, that 
the reader will be interested, entertained, and satisfied with 
this story, though nearly every sentence of it w supported 
by documentary proof of its reliability, and after its perusal 
will agree with the writer that truth is, if not stranger, at 
least more satisfying than fiction. 

Of many of the people here mentioned we would all like 
to know more than it seems possible now to discover. There 
are many we would all feci honored simply to have known. 
Perhaps we will know them in the future; but in the present 
we can but feel proud that we have their blood in our veins — 
that we are a part of them. 

There is good old Richard Fermour, who lost his princely 
estates for being true and steadfast in his friendship for his 
imprisoned confessor, Nicholas Thayne, through the cupidity 
of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. The writer must con- 
fess that he cannot read of the downfall of that cunning states- 
man without a feeling of satisfaction : How the Duke of Nor- 

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X PREFACE 

folk tore the Insignia of the Garter from his neck at the 
Council Board; how, in spite of his abject prayers, he was 
accused of treason, found guilty, and, amid popular applause, 
executed on the scaffold. And Richard Fermour came to his 
own again. Yes, we would be glad to have known the brave 
and patient old man. 

And there is Sir George Fermor, " the man of letters," 
the personal friend of Sir Philip Sydney. How pleasant it 
would have been to have heard him converse of his friend. 
And the first Earl of Pomf ret, the " traveler and scholar," 
he who secured the Arundel Marbles ; and his wife, Louisa, 
the first " blue stocking," who, as his widow, presented these 
most valuable antiques to the University of Oxford. 

And Robert Farmar, the " officer of rank in Queen Eliza- 
beth's Army in Ireland," who " was slain in battle," but not 
before he had founded our branch of the family — else where 
would we have been! 

Major Jasper Farmar, the friend and neighbor of William 
Penn, who took up 5000 acres of land in White Marsh town- 
ship, but died on the voyage over ; and his grandsons, Captain 
George Farmar, the hero of H. M. S. Quebec, and Colonel 
and Chief Justice Thomas Farmar. And an army of others, 
Captain Christopher Billopp, of the Royal Navy, his grand- 
son, Major Robert Farmar, of the English Army, and the 
Major's nephew, Christopher Billopp, the "Tory Colonel"; 
but if the writer continues this list his history will be repeating 
itself. 

There is one person, however, whom we would rather have 
known than any of the others, yet her name does not appear 
in any historical document nor private letter. One family 
chart informs us that Thomas Farmar married her; an order 
of an orphan's court mentions that Thomas Farmar " inter- 
married with her " — that is all we read of her. Yet we know 
she was a dutiful daughter, a loving sister, a good wife, and 
the best of mothers. 

That she was a dutiful daughter is shown by the fact that 
her father always made his home with her in Perth Amboy, 



PREFACE XI 

and her second son was named for him. As a loving sister, 
she named her son in honor of her sister's dead husband, 
and her daughter also bore her sister's name. That she 
was a good wife is proved by our hearing nothing of her 
but that she bore her husband twelve children, who were all 
brought up in the fear of God. Had their descendants all 
done the same, as there have been seven generations of the 
Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmars, the Farmar blood would 
now be coursing through the veins of nearly four hundred and 
fifty million people— five times the population of this country! 
Let us devoutly thank God that they did not. That she was 
one of the best of mothers is shown by the love and regard of 
those children. Nearly all of them grew up and married, and 
each and every one revently named the first daughter in honor 
of their devoted mother, Anne Billopp Farmar. Not did thil 
custom cease with the first generation] but the story of her 
lovely character must have been handed down from parent 
to child, for generation after generation continued to honor 
their first daughter with that revered name. Yes, we would 
all have been benefited by knowing Anne Billopp Farmar. 

The writer, in his researches, has been forcibly impressed 
by the almost total absence of information regarding the 
female members of the family, their birth, marriage, and 
death being generally all that can be found. He is reminded 
of the reply of a lady to one who was discoursing with some 
vehemence of the Bufferings and hardships of the Pilgrim 
Fathers : " Yes," she remarked, " but the poor Pilgrim 
Mothers! They had to put up with all that, and the Pilgrim 
Fathers, too ! " There is nothing to tell us of the hopes and 
disappointments, the pleasures and pains, the heart-burnings 
and sacrifices of the women. 

Mary, the wife of Major Jasper Farmar, buried her hus- 
band and son in the sea on her voyage to a strange and new 
world. Her sorrow must have been almost overpowering, yet 
there is no record of complaint from this woman. The duty 
of the hour was to take care of her family, and the record 
shows she did it nobly. There are no documents to show that 



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she yearned for the friends, and the scenes, and the customs of 
the Fatherland, but the two copper, Irish pennies found two 
hundred years after they had been hoarded and sacredly hidden 
by their owner. 

"They loved, but their story we cannot unfold; 
They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold; 
They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; 
They joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb." 

There seems to be a splendid opening for the historian in 
writing up the Colonial domestic life. 

The writer did not expect to carry this work down to the pres- 
ent day. But one never knows where one will end when one begins 
to write. He has been urged to bring it down to date, and 
in a genealogical way, he has in some cases done so. He 
feels that the work in its present shape will, in some future 
day, be a good foundation for some member of a future gen- 
eration to build upon, and he hopes that that time will not 
come until the magic of years shall have clothed him and his 
cotemporaries in the glamor of legend and tradition. And 
may the motto of that later writer also be " de mortuis nil 
nisi bonum." 

Washington, D. C. 
1906. 



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HE family of Farmar, ire are informed in Collins' 

Peerage, is derived from one of the Companions of the 

Conqueror, and was at a very early period established 

in the Lordship of Somerton, in Oxfordshire, England. The 

name has been spelled in numerous u ays, father and Bon, in the 

olden times, seldom agreeing upon the Bame orthogr« uhy, and 

there are some iiistanees where one individual has his name 
spelled in two or three ways, Fermour, Fermor, Farmar, and 
Farmer being some of the styles, while frequently the double 
F is used, as Thomas Ffarmar or ffarmar. We find some of this 
various spelling on brasses and monuments in the old Somerton 
Church, two of which arc here transcribed. . 

A certain William Fermour, who was a man of consider- 
able importance in his day (which day began before the Co 
lumbian discovery of America), lies buried in a chapel on the 
south side- of the chancel of the Somerton Church, under a 
great raised monument of gray marble, whereon lie the figu 
of a gentleman and his wife, in brass, and bearing this in- 
scription: 

" Here lyethe buried Mr. William Fermour, Esq., whych 
was born of this Towne and patron of this Churche, and also 
Clarke of the Crowne in the King's Bench, in King Henry 
the 7th and King Henry the 8th Dayes, Whyche died the 
20th day of 7 ber in the Year of our Lord God aMCCCCCLII : 
And also here lyeth Mistress Elizabeth Fermour, his last 
Wyffe whych was the Daughter of S r W 7 ill m Norrysse Knight 
— upon whose and all Christene Souls Ihu have mercy." 

At Home Church, Essex, was buried his first wife, with the 
following to tell the tale: 



4 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

" Here ljeth Katharine, the daughter of Sir William Pow- 
let, Knyght, wyf of William Fermour, Clarke of the Crown, 
who died May 26, the second of Henry the eighte." 

Now, the above William Fermour left the greater part of a 
large fortune by a will, which is of record, to his nephew who 
lies buried in the same church of Somerton, and whose name 
was Thomas Farmar. 

Thomas seems to have been a liberal-minded man, who 
endowed schools and did much other good with his fortune, 
and, according to his will, which is still extant, his executors 
erected in the Chapel of Somerton Church, a raised monu- 
ment of white marble, whereon lies his effigy in armor, and the 
effigy of his wife, and around the verge is the following Latin 
inscription : 

" Thomas Farmar, Armigero, viro animi magnitudine 
contra Hostes beneficentia erga Doctos admirabili. Domino 
hujus territorii benignissimo et Novae scholae Fundatori 
optimo in perpetuam sui suaeq. conjugis Brigittae faeminae 
lectissimae memoriam ex Testamento executores sui hoc monu- 
mentum flentes erexerunt. 

" Obiit vero anno Domini Millesimo quingentisimo Octo- 
gesimo die Augusti Octavo." 

Which in English would read: 

" To Thomas Farmar, Esq., a man magnanimous to his 
enemies, admirably beneficent to learning, a kind master, and 
the founder of the new school in perpetual memory of him- 
self and his wife Bridget, a most learned woman, by authority 
of his will this monument is erected by his weeping executors. 
He died in the true year of our Lord, fifteen hundred and 
eighty, the 8th day of August." 

Thomas Fermour, and his wife Emmotte, the widow of 
Henry Wenman, and the daughter of Mr. Hervey of Here- 
fordshire, are the first of the name of whom we have any docu- 
mentary evidence, according to Collins' Peerage. The will 
of the said Thomas is dated September 9, 1485, and, among 



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other things, he orders his body to be buried in the Chapel 
of St. Mary Magdelen in the Church of Whitney in Oxford- 
shire. It gives twenty pounds to the altar in the chancel of 
the Blessed Virgin Mary in that church — " For his tithes, 
which he had forgotten." To William, his son, the same Wil- 
liam who became clerk of the Crown, and who lies buried at 
Somerton Church, he gives 200 marks and all his lands in 
Cogges, and Buford. 

To Richard, his eldest son, and our ancestor, he gives 
200 marks and all his lands in Filkinger and Langford. To 
three children of his wife Emmotte, by her first husband, he 
gives " 100 £ each M — which would seem to indicate that he 
w.is a generous and kindhearted man. 

The "English Dictionary of National Biography n informs 
us that Richard Permour engaged extensively in commerce 
"of the staple of Calais," amassed a noble fortune, and set- 
tled at Easton Neston, in Northamptonshire. He traded in 
all kinds of commodities, and in no mean scale, as will be seen 
by the following statement, taken from vol. i. p. 472, of the 
"Letters and Papers of King Henry VIII.," viz.: 

" In 1513 he was granted by Margaret of Savoy, at the 
request of Henry VIII., a passport enabling him to export duty 
free, the large amount of 144,000 bushels of wheat." 

In 1515 we find mention of the A\\y ( 'rctt, of which William 
Fermour was owner, which " fine ship," laden with wool for 
Italy, was driven on the Zealand coast, and some of the 
sailors were taken by Moorish pirates. We also find in these 
papers that in 1524 he was in Florence, and of much assistance 
to Sir John Clerk, the agent of Cardinal Wolsey, who was 
negotiating in Italy for the Cardinal's election to the Papacy. 

He was a zealous Catholic, and at the time of the Reforma- 
tion, we are told in Burke's " Peerage," his large possessions 
excited the cupidity of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, the 
Vicar-General of Henry VIII., so he confiscated the whole 
of his large fortune, because of his having relieved his con- 
fessor, Nicholas Thayne, while in the gaol of Buckingham. 



6 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

The Job-like disposition and experiences of Mr. Richard 
Fermour compels a lengthy quotation from Hall's " Life of 
Henry the Eighth." Mr. Hall was a cotemporary of Mr. 
Fermour. 

" The good old man, when he was stript of all he had, re- 
tired to a village called Wapenham, in sight of his former 
Habitations, and lived in the parsonage house there, the 
advowsons of which had been in his gift, and the parson thereof 
presented by him. 

" There he passed several years with a most consummate 
piety and entire resignation, till 1550. 

" In the time of his prosperity he had in his family accord- 
ing to the custom of the age, a servant, ' Will Somers,' who 
by his witty or frothy discourse, past for a jester, and after- 
wards served the King himself in the same office or capacity. 
This man, remembering with some gratitude his first mas- 
ter, and having admission to the King at all times, and places, 
especially when sick and melancholy, and toward his end, let 
fall some lucky words which awakened his conscience so as 
at least to endeavour a restitution, and accordingly he gave 
immediate orders about it, but being prevented by death, it 
was never effectually performed till the fourth year of Ed- 
ward VI., by letters patent bearing that date; but so miser- 
ably lopt and torn by the several grants and sales made by 
the Crown during the aforesaid interval, that what he did 
obtain was not one third of what he had before possessed." 

Mr. Hall gives a list of the poor " lopt and torn " one- 
third, as follows: 



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" Those lands restored to him were the lordships and manors 
of Towcestour, and Easton Neston, the advowsons of the rec- 
tories of Cold-Higham and of the vicarage of Easton Neston, 
the hundred of Wilmersley, with very great privileges thereto 
belonging, and several houses in Cotton-End in the county 
of Northampton; the lordship and manor of Offley St. Leger 
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in the county of Worcester; the lordship and manor of Lu- 
trnhoe, and the hermitage lands in Luten and Runtisford 
Farm in Runtisford in the county of Bedford. 

" Yet King Edward, to make some compensation granted 
by the same charter, tv Richard Fermour md his heirs, sev- 
eral other lordships, manors, lands and tenements, viz.: The 

lordships and manors of Corsec be, Holstocke, Nether-Stoke 

and the advowsons of the rectory of Corsecombe in the county 
of Dorset; the manor of Mudforl in the county of Somerset; 
the house and scat of the then lately dissolved priory of 

SwardersleV .and divers woods and lands thereto belonging; 
the manor of Hide in Rode and Beveral lands in Rode-in-Ashen 
in tin' county <>\' Northampton; the manor of Newport round 

and the advowson of the rectory and church of Rawrith, in 
the county of Essex, etc. )'< t all this was but a small com 
peruation for the great loss he Jiarf sustained. 

"lie, therefore, being rep' d ^t' part of his estate, 

and of some addition, as aforesaid, returned to his manor 
house at Easton Neston, where he departed this life on No- 
\ ember the 17th. 1552. It is further remarkable, that ha\ 
ing some foreknowledge of his own death, lie invited on that 
very day, many of his friends and neighbors, and taking leave 
of them, retired to his devotions, and was found dead in that 
posture, and afterwards buried on the north side of the chancel 
of the parish Church of Easton N< ston, under a gray marble 
tomb." 

He had married Anne, daughter of Sir William Brown, 
Lord Mayor of London. 

He was succeeded by his eldest son, John Fermor (sic). 
Esq., who was made one of the " Knights of the Carpet at 
Westminster, Oct. 2 nd 1553, the day of the coronation of 
Queen Mary, in Her Majesty's presence, under the Cloth of 
State, by the Earl of Arundel, Commissioner for the occasion." 

Sir John Fermor represented the county of Northampton 
in two Parliaments, and was sheriff of that Shire in the 4th 
and 5th years of Queen Mary's reign. He married Maud, 
daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux, Knt., Lord Vaux of Harrow- 



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don, and was succeeded at his death, December 12, 1571, by 
his eldest son, George Fermor, Esq., who received the honor 
of knighthood in 1586. 

Sir George had the honor of entertaining King James the 
First, and his Queen, at Easton Neston, on June 11, 1603, 
" when," so Collins informs us, " his Majesty was pleased to 
confer the honor of knighthood upon his eldest son, Sir Hatton 
Fermor." Sir George married Mary, the daughter of Thomas 
Curzon, Esq., of Waterperry, County Oxford. He was a 
man of letters and a personal friend of Sir Philip Sydney, 
and when the latter was buried in the Abbey, Sir George was 
one of the few who were invited to walk in the funeral pro- 
cession with the family of his friend. 

Robert Fermor, the third son of' Sir George Fermor, of 
Easton Neston, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Cur- 
zon, Esq., we are told in Burke's " Peerage," went to Ireland 
with Queen Elizabeth's army, " in which he was an officer of 
rank," and for his services was given by the Crown several 
estates, chiefly in the counties of Cork and Tipperary. He 
was " killed in battle," leaving a son Robert, of whom we will 
speak later. We will first give a very brief sketch of the 
elder branch of the family. 

Sir Hatton, who was knighted by King James the First at 
Easton Neston, left a son George, who was created a baronet 
in 1641, and his son created Baron Leominster in 1692. It 
was the first Lord Leominster who built the house now stand- 
ing at Easton Neston,* after designs by Sir Christopher Wren. 
In the year 1721 the then Baron Leominster was created Earl 
of Pomfret. 

Lady Juliana Fermor, fourth daughter of the first Earl 
of Pomfret, married Thomas, the eldest son of William Penn. 
Lady Arabella, another daughter of the first Earl, was made 

*Easton Neston, the estate of the Farmer family (the Earl of Pomfret), 
is situated near Towcester, Northamptonshire — a tract of some 25,000 
acres. The last Earl of Pomfret died in 1867; leaving no children, his 
sister came into possession of the estate. She married Sir Thomas Hes- 
keth, Bart.; their son, Thomas, has inherited the title and estate. The 
present Sir Thomas Hesketh married Florence Sharon, daughter of Sen- 
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famous by Alexander Pope, who dedicated to her his " Rape 
of the Lock." 

A large number of the Arundel Marbles, which were collected 
by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Norfolk, between 
the years 1607 and 1614, were Bold by the divorced duchess of 
one of his descendants, then Duke of Norfolk, and came into 
the possession of the Karl of Pomfret. These most valuable 
antiques were, in 1755, presented by Louisa, Countess Dowager 
of Pomfret, to the University of Oxford, where they now are. 
Celebrated among Lady Pomfret's contribution arc a colossal 

torso of Minerva, and BCV< ral statues of Hoinan senators, in- 
cluding one supposed to represent Cicero. 

Robert, the grandson of Sir George Fermor, and the son 
of Robert, who was "killed in battle," resided on his estates 
in the county of Tipperary. He had Beveral sons, the second 
being Jasper Farmar. a Major in the Army, who married 
Mary, the eldest daughter of Anthony Gamble. Fsq., of 
County Cork, and resided at Garron Kenny Fange, in that 
county. 

When Oliver Cromwell carried his war into Ireland, among 
the Royalists opposed to him was the Farmar family. Burke 
tills us they were deprived of a large part of their estat 
and, with what property they were able to carry with them, 
they were for a time compelled to take refuge in England. 
After the Restoration they received some small compensation 
for their losses in the cause of their King, but a large part of 
their estates was never returned to them. So, in the year 
1685, we find that Major Jasper Farmar, and Jasper Farmar, 
Jr., with their respective families, came to Pennsylvania. 

Major Jasper Farmar's younger brother John married 
Mary Hales, and was the father of John Farmar, who settled 
at Youghall. John, Jr., in 1719, married Alphea Garde, died 
in 1740, and left a son, George Farmar, of the Royal Navy, 
who, while commanding H. M. Ship Quebec off Ushant in 
1779, engaged a French frigate of greatly superior force. 
The contest on both sides was desperate, and Captain Far- 
mar displayed such gallantry and intrepidity that he con- 



10 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 

tinued the engagement until his ship took fire. Because of a 
serious wound, received during the engagement, he was unable 
to take to the boats, and, after most of his crew had escaped, 
he was blown up with his ship. When last seen, the brave 
captain was coolly sitting on the fluke of the anchor, watching 
the progress of the flames. 

Lord Nelson had served under Farmar, and it is such ex- 
amples as Farmar's that does much towards making such 
men as Nelson. 

In recognition of Farmar's heroic act, his grateful King, 
in January, 1780, created his eldest son, George, a baronet. 
Sir Richard Henry Kendrick Farmar, of Mt. Pleasant, County 
Sussex, is the present representative of that branch of the 
family. There are several other branches of the family men- 
tioned in Burke's " Landed Gentry." 

Major Jasper Farmar, who resided at Garron Kenny Fange 
in County Cork, the Pennsylvania Magazine of History, in 
vol. xxi. p. 335, tells us, was a neighbor of William Penn, who 
lived at Shangarry in the same county. " Shangarry " was 
an estate containing eight square miles of land, and adjoin- 
ing it was the estate of the Major's brother John — " Youg- 
hall." The Major was a friend of William Penn, and most 
probably it was through Penn's influence that he decided to 
take up a " Plantation," as these settlements were all called 
at that time, in the new Province of Pennsylvania. 

The Farmars came to America in the year 1685. Jasper 
Farmar, Jr., had made a voyage of investigation two years 
before, but had returned to England to bring out his father, 
and their families, and servants. The following letters from 
James Claypoole, merchant, of London, who emigrated to 
Philadelphia in 1683, will explain themselves. Copies of them 
are to be found in the tenth volume of the Pennsylvania Mag- 
azine of History, pages 402 and 403. 

" To Thomas Cooke, 
" Philadelphia Y e l 8t 12 m0 1683. 
" . . . I might give thee large accounts of the country 
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word of mouth with more satisfaction from Jasper Farmar, 
Jr., by whom I send this . . ." 

And to Robert Rogers, of same date, in almost the same 
words : 

" . . . I might give a larger account of the country 
and trade and matters relating thereto, but thou may have 
it witli more satisfaction from Jasper Farmar, by whom I 
send this. . . ." 

We find in tin- Bame magazine, vol. viii. p. 336, the follow- 
ing account of the arrival in Philadelphia of the Farmar 
families : 

"The Bristol Merchant, John Stephens, commander, ar- 
rived here the 10th of 9"' month, 1685. The p assengers named 
are as follows, viz. : 

"Jasper Farmar, Senior, his family, 

" Mary Farmar, Widdow, 

" Edward Farmar, Edward Batsford, 

"Sarah Farmar. John Farmar, Charles Farmar, 

"Jasper Farmar .Junior's family, 

"Thomas Farmar, Katharine Farmar, Widdow, Elizabeth 
Farmar, Katharine Farmar, Junior.'' 

Their servants are as follows : 

" Joan Daly, Philip Mayow, & Helen, his wife, John Mayow, 
John Whitlow, Nicholas Whitloe, Thomas Younge & his wife, 
William Winter, George Fisher, Arthur Smith, Thomas Al- 
ferry, Henry Wells, Robert Wilkinson, Elizabeth Mayow, 
Martha Mayow, Albert Dawson, Sarah Binke, Thebe Orevan, 
Andrew Walbridge, Twenty servants." 

In volume iv. of the same magazine, on page 354, is found 
another account of the advent of the family in America: 

" Mary Farmar, Widow of Jasper Farmar, an Irish gentle- 
man and officer of the British Army, arrived in America with 
her son Edward, and other children, and twenty servants, in 



12 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

the ship Bristol Merchant, John Stephens, commander, No- 
vember tenth, sixteen hundred and eighty-five, and settled on 
a tract of five thousand acres of land purchased from William 
Penn, embracing all of Farmar's or Whitemarsh Township, 
Philadelphia County, south of Skippack Road." 

So it would appear that, in spite of their many adversities, 
the Farmars were not reduced to abject poverty. 

The will of Major Jasper Farmer is dated 7th month 25, 
1685, and was proved the second of November, 1685. Let- 
ters of Administration to the estate of Jasper Farmar, Jr., 
were issued the nineteenth day of November, 1685. It is very 
probable, as has been frequently stated, that they both died 
on the voyage. 

From the Thomas Farmar mentioned above, the son of Jas- 
per Farmar, Jr., we are descended. He was probably about 
ten years old when he landed in America. In fact, the only 
man in the family at that time was Edward, the son of the 
Major. 

Mary, the widow of Jasper Farmar, Sr., appears to have 
proved herself a very good business woman, and in this try- 
ing emergency she took care of the interests of her large 
family, and numerous dependents, as well as most men could 
have done. Her son Edward could not have been of age, for 
the records show that all the business was transacted in her 
name, and with her building and planting, road-making and 
lime-burning, she was a very busy woman, and is frequently 
mentioned with very great respect. 

Edward eventually received the balance of the five thousand 
acres called for in the Patent after Katharine, the widow of 
Jasper, Jr., received her portion, and he lived and died on his 
land. He was a Justice of Philadelphia County for twenty- 
six consecutive years. He married and left children. He must 
have married in Pennsylvania, for his wife's name was Rachel, 
and that name does not appear in the list of the passengers of 
the good ship Bristol Merchant. 

Sarah, the daughter of Edward and Rachel Farmar, mar- 
ried Peter Robeson. Katharine, another daughter, married 



THE EARLY FAEMAKS 13 

Jonathan Robeson, a nephew of the said Peter Robeson. 
There is mention on page 451 of volume iv. of of the Penn- 
sylvania Magazine of History, that Mary, the widow of 
Major Jasper Farmar, built a brick house in Philadelphia, 
in the autumn of 1686, a little more than a year after she 
landed. 

This house was standing until about the year 1895. It was 
then and had long been known as the old Bowers house, and 
was standing at Frankford Avenue and Norris Street. It 
was torn down to make room for the building that is now 
owned and occupied by the Northeast Branch Young Men's 
Christian Association. It vraa owned, and perhaps improved 
by Dr. Richard Farmar, the grandson of the original builder, 
about the year 1750. 

Dr. Richard Farmar married Misa Sarah Carmack, daugh- 
ter of a prominent Philadelphia merchant. They had one 
daughter, Sarah Farmar, born in 1753, probably in this house. 
She married Major William Bowers, a continental soldier. 
Tradition says her parents were averse to the marriage, and 
that Miss Sallie, under the cover of darkness, climbed out of 
a second-story window, joined her lover, got away and was 
married. Two sons were born to them; the eldest, Richard 
Farmar Bowers, was ordained minister of the Wesleyan 
United Society of Kensington, on January 1, 1827. At the 
death of Pastor Bowers, the house became the property of 
his second wife, whose maiden name was Marie Tilton. She 
occupied it until her death in 1886, when the mansion and 
its very greatly circumscribed site was purchased by the 
Young Men's Christian Association. Watson, in his " Annals," 
says of this Farmar-Bowers Mansion, that " it was the only 
one of the old Colonial houses with a gable pointed toward 
the road." It was a two-story brick house, very substantially 
built. The materials were imported. The entrance was by 
a massive door which swung back into a wide hallway, bril- 
liant from floor to ceiling with plate glass mirrors. The 
rooms on the first floor opened into the hallway on each side. 

They were wainscoted to the ceiling. One was also panelled 



14 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FAEMAR 

most artistically. In this room a massive iron safe was built 
into the wall. The place was heated by large open fireplaces. 
During the demolition of the old house, two Irish pennies, 
issued under the authority of the Irish Parliament in 1681 
and 1683, were also found. Were these relics of the old coun- 
try, brought over by Mary, the widow of Major Jasper 
Farmar? 



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THE BILLOPPS 
Captain Chbibtofheb Billopp, Royal Navy 

AS Captain Hillopp, whose daughter Anne married the 

/% emigrant Thomas Farmar, was the ancestor of all 
A ^L the Farmars and Billopps in America of whom the 
writer has any knowledge, and, as he was an exceedingly 
notable and interesting character, the writer believes a sketch 
of his career will be welcome to all the readers of this book. 
So before proceeding with the narrative of Thomas Farmar, 
he will, as briefly as possible, give a sketch of Captain Christo- 
pher Billopp. 

Although the writer has confined his story within the limits 
of documentary evidence, there have been so many traditions 
relating to Captain Christopher Billopp, and the circumnavi- 
gation of Staten Island, that he is impelled to quote from 
Mr. Ira K. Morris, the author of " A Biographical History 
of Staten Island," Mr. Morris having assured the writer that 
his story of Christopher Billopp is founded on reliable data. 

He was the great-grandson, we are told by Mr. Morris, 
of one Barnard Billopp, who " was born in Coventry, near 
the close of the sixteenth century. At the age of seventeen 
Barnard enlisted as a cavalryman in the service of the Crown ; 
he became an officer as a reward of merit, was repeatedly pro- 
moted for bravery, and finally died from the effects of a wound 
received in a duel with a fellow-officer. 

" Barnard left two sons, Christopher and James. The latter 
is said to have won the warm friendship of Queen Elizabeth 
by once saving her precious life at the risk of his own. He 
was presented with a commission in the Navy, which he de- 
clined, and accepted a Court appointment. He had a large 
family. A son, Christopher, became a merchant in London, 

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18 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

and was government contractor under Charles the First, 
who granted him this favor because of his marriage to 
a lady belonging to the Court circle. Christopher had one 
son, whom he also named Christopher, who was born in London 
about 1638. He was educated for a naval officer, by direction 
of the King, who held his father and mother in high regard. 

" He received his commission as captain, and made several 
important voyages to distant parts. In one of these he was 
captured by Turkish pirates, who wounded him severely, and 
left him lying on the shore for dead. 

" After many weeks of suffering, he was picked up by an 
English vessel, and taken back to his home. 

" In the spring of 1667 Christopher Billopp sailed from 
England in the Bentley, a small vessel carrying two cannon 
on her deck. She reached the banks of Newfoundland, after 
several weeks of tossing about on the ocean, and almost im- 
mediately started to make a cruise along the coast of New 
Netherlands. It is not known whether he was in the service 
of Charles the Second, or whether the venture was of a private 
nature. 

"Up to the year 1668 it was a disputed question whether 
Staten Island belonged to New York, or New Jersey, and tired 
of the annoyance that this fact gave, the Duke of York de- 
cided that all islands lying in the harbor of New York, which 
could be circumnavigated in tewnty-four hours should belong 
to New York, otherwise to New Jersey. The possibility of 
sailing around this island in a day had long been disputed, 
and was generally denied, but Captain Billopp thought other- 
wise, and undertook the work, and was successful, with an 
hour to spare." 

It is said he covered the deck of his vessel with empty casks, 
at first gaining sailing power, but, when he came to the shal- 
low portion of the stream, between the island and New Jersey, 
he used the barrels to buoy up his ship, and thus passed over 
the bar, and won the island for New York. In consideration 
for this service, the Duke of York presented Captain Billopp 
with a patent for a tract of land on the southwest end of the 



CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 19 

island, which he called " Bentlcy Manor," in honor of his 
sturdy little ship. " There and then he built the house still 
standing," now, and for many years past, known as " The 
Old Billopp House," which will frequently be mentioned in 
these records. " Most of the materia] for the house was 
gathered on the plantation, but the cement which holds the 
great thick walls together came from England, and the bricks 
from Belgium." 

The foregoing account is taken almost literally from Mor- 
ris' M Biographical History of Staten Island." While it is 
very interesting, there are some statements which do not ex- 
actly square with the documents in the case. The above shows 
that the Captain's grandfather was named .lames, and lived 
in London, but the copy of a deed found on page 702, vol. v., 
second series lYnna. Archives, proves that his name was 
Christopher, and that he lived in the town of Beverly in 
Yorkshire. The died is given by Captain Christopher Billopp, 
to his brother Joseph Billopp, Merchant of London, and is 
dated October 9, 1677, and conveys a house from Christopher 
to Joseph, the consideration for which is six hundred pounds; 
which house is said to be situated in the town of Beverly, in 
Yorkshire, near the North Bar re, " between one formerly owned 
by my grandfather, Christopher Billopp, late alderman of the 
said town, and the house of Mitchell Wharton, Esq." 

This deed also shows that Captain Christopher Billopp had 
a brother Joseph, a merchant of London, and as the abbrevia- 
tion of this name — (Jos.) — is very similar to that of James 
— (Jas.) — the writer is of the opinion that Mr. Morris' 
authorities had gotten the dates wrong and the names mixed. 
It is the belief of the writer that the six hundred pounds re- 
ceived for the house in Beverly, which was a large sum of 
money at that time, was used in building the house on Staten 
Island. If this is true, the date of the building would be 
ten years later than that given by Mr. Morris. 

In the " Biographia Navalis," Charnock, vol. i. p. 386, we 
are informed that Christopher Billopp was, in the year 1671, 
made a lieutenant in the English Navy, and appointed to 



20 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 

the good ship Portsmouth, from which ship he was detached, 
and ordered to the Bristol, on the same station, in the follow- 
ing year. On the 7th of May, 1673, he was promoted to the 
command of the Prudent Mary, Fireship. On the 3d of Feb- 
ruary, 1674, he was made captain of the Rainbow — hired ship 
of war. There now comes a hiatus of six years, which will be 
accounted for later. 

On the 20th of July, 1680, Billopp was appointed to the 
command of the Depthford Ketch. Then, says Mr. Charnock : 
" Whether he retired from service for a time after this period, 
we know not, but we have not been able to learn anything 
relative to him until the year 1692, when we find him com- 
manding the Ossory, of ninety guns. He was appointed to 
this ship as successor of Captain John Tyrrel, on the 6th of 
December, 1692, and was promoted on the 23d of May (1693), 
following, to the Victory, first rate, 100 guns, succeeding Sir 
Edward Stanley. On the death of Sir John Ashby, in the 
following month, Captain Billopp was removed to the London, 
96 guns, at that time the largest ship in the English Navy. 

Mr. Charnock has done very well, but even he is not com- 
plete, for Mr. Wm. L. Clowes, in " The Royal Navy," vol. ii. 
p. 328, informs us that Captain Christopher Billopp com- 
manded the Greenwich of 54 guns, and 280 men, at the battle 
of Bantry Bay, May 1, 1689, which closes the gap by over 
three years. But the same author tells us what the Captain 
was doing in the first part of the year 1692, for he states on 
page 349, of the same volume, that Captain Christopher 
Billopp was in command of the Suffolk, of 70 guns, at the 
great naval battle of Barfleur, beginning May 19, 1692, and 
lasting three days. It is not at all probable that even this 
completes the list of vessels which he commanded, for it is 
very difficult to secure accurate data of English naval affairs 
of over two hundred years ago. 

But here is another interesting incident locating him on 
the last night of the year 1690, related by Lord Macaulay in 
the sixteenth chapter of his " History of England." In his 
usual forcible and graphic style, he tells us how Captain 



CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 21 

Billopp captured some conspirators against the Throne of 
King William. He says: "This vessel [a yacht, belonging 
to the Earl of Danby] was placed under the command of a 
trusty officer, Captain Billopp ... At dead of night, 
the last night of the year 1690, Preston, Ashton, and Elliott 
went on board of their smack mar the Tower. They were in 
great dread, lest they Bhould be stopped and searched, either 
by a frigate which lay off Woolwich, or by the guard posted 
at the block house at Gravesend, but, when they had passed 
both frigate and blockhouse, without being challenged, their 
spirits rose, their appetites became keen, they unpacked a 
hamper well stored irith roast beef, mince pies, and bottles 
of wine, and were jusi sitting down to their Christinas cheer, 
when the alarm was given that a vessel from Tilbury was 
flying through the water after them. They had scarcely time 
to hide themselves in the dark hole, among the gravel, which 
was the ballast of their smack, when the chase was over, and 
Billopp, as the head of an armed party, came on board. The 
hatches were taken up, the conspirators were arrested, and 
their clothes were strictly examined. 

" Preston, in his agitation, had dropped on the gravel his 
official seal, and the packet of which hi' was the bearer. The 
seal was discovered where it had fallen. Ashton, aware of 
the importance of the papers, snatched them up, and tried to 
conceal them, but they were found in his bosom. The prison- 
ers then tried to cajole or corrupt Billopp. They called for 
wine, pledged him, praised his gentlemanly demeanor, and 
assured him that if he would accompany them, nay — if he 
would only let that little roll of paper fall overboard into the 
Thames, his fortune would be made. The tide of affairs, they 
said, was on the turn ; things would not go on forever, as 
they had gone on of late ; and it was in the Captain's power 
to be as great and as rich as he could desire. Billopp, though 
courteous, was inflexible. . . . Later in the night the 
yacht reached Whitehall stairs, and the prisoners, strongly 
guarded, were conducted to the Secretary's Office." 

As has been observed, after Billopp was appointed Captain 
of the Rainbow, in February of 1674-, his name is not again 



22 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

mentioned in the navy list for about six years. It is this hiatus 
that the writer will now supply. 

In 1674, shortly after the surrender, for the second time, 
of New Amsterdam to the English, Major Edmond, later on 
Sir Edmond Andros, was appointed by James, Duke of York, 
to be Governor. Andros was tyranical in his nature, as is 
well known. 

It was Andros who, while governor of Connecticut, in his 
attempt to take from that spirited little colony their liberal 
charter, forced them to hide it in the hollow of the famous, 
and now historical, Oak Tree. He, perhaps, knowing enough 
of his own disposition to feel that he would require some physi- 
cal support, requested and secured permission to raise a com- 
pany of one hundred men to take with him to New York. 
This was the first company of soldiers that was ever raised 
in England for service in America. Major Andros was com- 
missioned captain of this company, and Captain Christopher 
Billopp a lieutenant. Why Billopp should have given up a 
captaincy in the navy for a lieutenantcy under Andros can 
only be explained on the hypothesis of a great love of ad- 
venture, and hope of quick promotion and handsome gains. 
Billopp's commission is found on page 221, vol. iii., " Docu- 
ments Relative to Colonial History of New York," and reads 
as follows: 

" Commission of Christopher Billopp to be Lieutenant of 
Maj. Andros Company. 

" To Christopher Billopp, Lt., to Edm d . Andros. Es q . 

" Whereas I have thought fit out of the good opinion I have 
conceived of you to appoint you to be Lieu 4 , of y e said Company 
above mentioned, 

" These are to will authorize and require you forthwith to 
take upon you the command of Lieu 1 of y e said Company 
accordingly and duly to exercise y e officers and sold™ of y e 
same in arms according to y e direccions of your Cap 1 and to 
use yo r best care and endeavor to keep them in good ord r and 
discipline, Hereby commanding them to obey you as their 
Lieut and you likewise to obey and follow such ord 8 and direc- 



CAPTAIN CHEISTOPHER BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 28 

tions as you shall from time to time receive from myself or 
yo r said Cap 1 according to the discipline of War and y e trust 
reposed in you. 

"For w' h this shall he yo r warr 1 

" Given under my hand and seale at Windsor the 3 d July 
1674 " James 

" Duke of York." 

Shortly after Billopp's arrival in New York, he received 
a patent for eleven hundred and sixty-five acres of land in 
the west end of Staten Island, which was followed soon after 
by another patent for two thousand acres contiguous to the 
first — in all thirty-one hundred and sixty-five acres, which 
"plantation" became known as " Bentley Manor." 

It is the writer's opinion tli.it Staten Island was circum- 
navigated by Captain Billopp, who was an experienced sea- 
man, after his arrival in New York with Andros, in some ship 
picked up in the New York harbor, which happened to be 
named the Bentley. 

There have been many stories told by Lossing, Whitehead, 
and other American historians in regard to these grants of 
land. Some say they were given on account of the circum- 
navigation of the island, and others as a reward for having 
saved the life of the Duke in a naval engagement. It is pos- 
sible that one was a reward for one of these things, and one 
for the other. But the fact remains it was an unusually large 
grant of land, and Billopp must have done something of un- 
usual merit in the opinion of the Duke to have been thought 
worthy to receive such a handsome gift. 

On August 13, 1677. after he had been in New York for 
three years, Governor Andros appointed Billopp Collector of 
Customs in the Delaware River and Bay at the old town of 
New Castle. On the next day we find that he appointed him 
to be commander in the Delaware River and Bay with the title 
of Captain. Copies of both commissions are to be found on 
pages 695-6, Pennsylvania Archives, second series, volume v. 
He remained as commander on the Delaware for about two 
years. It is said by Mr. Holcomb, in his interesting work, 



24 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

" Early Ecclesiastical Affairs in New Castle, Delaware ": " He 
seems to have been a very arbitrary and tyrannical individual, 
and carried things with a high hand." His chief offense, in 
Mr. Holcomb's view, was that he " deprived the Court of the 
use of the Court Room and prison, which were within the fort, 
using the first for a barn, and the prison for a stable, and 
when remonstrated with by the Court, answered ' that the Court 
should not sit in the fort, and that it did not concern the 
Court.' But he afterwards agreed to remove his horses, and 
cause the Court Room to be cleaned." He also prohibited a 
Mr. John Yoe, a minister, from exercising his ministerial 
office, but, as Mr. Holcomb himself does not appear to be a 
great admirer of the reverend gentleman, perhaps Captain 
Billopp, who knew him personally, had very good reasons for 
his action. 

His offense, however, in the eyes of Andros, his superior 
officer, was the stand he made in the affair of John Fenwick, 
who had made a settlement at Salem, New Jersey, on the east- 
ern side of the Delaware River. Fenwick claimed his title 
from the original proprietors, which Andros denied on the 
ground that that title had lapsed by the temporary occupancy 
of the Dutch. Billopp supported Fenwick's claim, and, as 
he was the immediate agent through whom Andros had to deal 
with Fenwick, affairs became rather unpleasant. Billopp went 
to New York to have it out with Andros, which he did, but 
he seems to have gone out with it, for we read that he was 
requested to resign his commission " for talking against the 
Governor in a loud voice at the Custom House." 

Billopp remained in America a short time, during which 
time appears a letter from the Secretary of the Duke to Andros, 
advising him to be cautious in his " treatment of Captain 
Billopp, as his father, Christopher Billopp, Gent., of London, 
is a friend of the King." There are letters, too, that show 
anxiety and fear that he may sell his plantation to citizens 
of the rival colony — New Jersey. 

He, however, returned to England, and as Charnock states, 
on the 20th of July, 1680, re-entered the navy, and was ap- 



CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHKR BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 25 

pointed to the command of the Dcpthford. It was while in 
command of this vessel that an incident occurred, which, while 
only the documents in the case appear, the glamor of two 
centuries makes very interesting. The documents, from the 
New York Historical Collection, 1893, page 436, follow: 

" To the Sheriff of New York, or Water Bailiff, You are in 
his Majesty's name required to attach in the hands of Mr. 
John I in in-, or any other person, within your precinct, thirty- 
eight negro Blaves, lately taken and carried away by Captain 
Christopher Billopp, from on board the ship Providence of 
London, George Mantor, Master, being on her voyage from 
Angola to Nevis [an island in the West Indies, owned by the 
English, near St. Christopher], and by him sent to this place, 
consigned to John [mans. Which Bhip and negroes did belong 
to and were the proper estate <>(' Mr- John How den, of Lon- 
don, Mr. John Temple, and Mr. Thomas Temple, citizens and 
goldsmiths of London. And if the said negroes are sold, you 
are to attach the effects or produce of them in such place as 
the same shall be, So that you have the negroes or produce 
at the next Court to he held in tin City Hall. Wherein fail 
not. 

"May 4, 1683. 

"William Hi i kman, Dep. Mayor." 

Then follows the sheriff's return and endorsement: 

"By virtue of said attachment I did on the 5th instant, 
attach in the hand- of Mr. John Imans the said negroes, and 
being informed that some of the effects or produce of some 
of the negroes were shipped on board the ship Charles, 
Robert Codenham, Master, I, the same day repaired on board 
the ship, and inquired for the Master, who not being on board, 
I did publically (sic), upon the Deck of said vessel, read the 
attachment in the presence of the mate and the boatswain, 
and did attach all such goods, to witt, 40 barrels and 24 half- 
barrels of flour, and 8 hogeheads of bread, but the vessel sailed 
without delivering said goods. 

"May 15, 1683. "John Collier, Sheriff." 



26 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

This looks very badly for the Captain, for the New York 
Historical Society has given him no chance to defend himself. 
But defend himself he did, and, probably, got the negroes, too. 
For in " Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New 
York," vol. iii, p. 365, we find a " Petition of Captain Billopp 
to the King," which reads as follows: 

"To the King 8 most Excellent Ma ty and the R\ Hono ble . 
the Lords of His Ma te most Hono ble Privy Council — The Hum- 
ble Petition of Captain Christopher Billopp sheweth — 

" That yo r Pet r some time in June 1682 as Commander of 
His Ma ts Ketch Depthford pursuant to his Ma ts commandes, 
Seized an enterloper called the Providence, of London, whereof 
one George Mantor was commander, which ship and negroes 
with all that belonged to her was condemned in the Admiralty 
Court at Neaves (sic) for trading to Guiney contrary to his 
Ma ts Charter granted the Royal AfFrican Company; some 
time after yo r Pet r sent from Neaves to New York some Nea- 
groes with other Goods consigned to Mr. John Injons about 
the month of May 1683 by vertue of a Procuration from M r . 
John Baudcn and Thomas Temple of London, to M r John 
West, Clarke of the Mayor's Court at New Yorke. The said 
West as Attorney to Bauden, & rc , attached and arrested in the 
hands of the said Injons, all the neagroes or effects of the 
said neagroes which yo r Pet r soe consigned to the said Injons, 
and, as yo r Pet 1 " shall make appear Pet 1 ", [property?] to the 
value of one Thousand one Hundred and fforty pounds Ster- 
ling, from which Judgment yo r Pet" 3 agent desired to appeale 
to yo r Ma ty and Council here which was refused. 

" Now may it please your sacred Ma ty That Province being 
settled as other of Yo r Ma u Plantations, being by Laws and 
Constitutions for the security of yo r Ma" subjects, whereof 
Yo r Ma u reserving appeals to be determined before Yo r Ma" 
and Councell. 

" Yo r Pet r most humbly prayes Yo r Ma ty will be graciously 
pleased to order the Mayor's Court of New York to stop all 
proceedings and to send over an Appeale That the Matter may 



CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 27 

be argued, before this Board in Order to a finall Determina- 
tion. 

"And Yo r Pet r as in duty bound shall ever pray — (Decem- 
ber 23, 1685.)" 

That day the King's Council reported favorably on the pe- 
tition, requiring a security from Billopp of two thousand 
pounds, whereupon the King approved the same in the fol- 
lowing words : 

"His Ma u Council approving the same and being graciously 
pleased to admit of the pet™ appeal hath this day thought fit 
to Order The matter of the Baid appeal bee and the same 
is hereby appointed to be heard before lli^ Ma ly in Council 
within four months after notice hereof shall be given to the 
Mayor of New York, who \a to transmit to this Board an 
account of all proceedings in his Court relating thereunto, 
and it is further ordered thai in the mean time all Proceed- 
ings against the said Cap' Billopp or his Agent relating to 
this matter doe cease; Hee having this day given security 
here, according to the Report, to answer such Determination 
in the Appeal, as his Majesty in Council shall award. Whereof 
the said Mayor of New York, or the Mayor thereof for the 
time being and all others concerned are to take notice and 
give obedience hereunto, and Colonel Thomas Dungan His 
Ma 1 " Governor of New York is hereby directed to take care 
and give order that all things be performed accordingly." 

Captain Billopp's name is frequently mentioned in the old 
records. In the " Calendar of Historical Manuscripts," vol. ii. 
p. 64, June 19, 1678, he procures a warrant for Paulus Mar- 
shall, and others for abducting a servant girl. Though he 
was appointed to the command of the Depthford in 1680, we 
find in the New Jersey Archives, 1st series, vol. xxi. p. 45, 
under the date of November 26, 1681, mention of a special 
Court of Oyer and Terminer, called at the request of Captain 
Christopher Billopp. The same volume mentions two mort- 
gages held by him on land in New Jersey, the two tracts of 
land aggregating over 1900 acres. 



28 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

June 10, 1687, the " Calendar of Historical Manuscripts " 
shows an order for a commission for Captain Christopher 
Billopp as surveyor of highways for Staten Island. The same 
volume, page 237, shows that on December 5, 1693, he was 
charged with kicking and beating William Bryan for refusing 
to sign his indentures. This last item is useful, in that it 
indicates that he had retired from the Royal Navy after hav- 
ing been for a short time in command of England's finest ship, 
the London, to which, the reader will remember, he was ap- 
pointed in June of that very year. On the 27th day of Au- 
gust, A. D. 1752, is recorded in the Book of Conveyances for 
Mistress Mary Billopp and Mistress Anne Billopp, Spinsters, 
of London, a Power of Attorney, giving them complete con- 
trol of all his property in America. 

In 1701 he was in London, for the authorities in New 
Jersey at that time recommended to the Board of Trade some 
provincial appointments, and referred to Sir Edmond Andros 
and Captain Christopher Billopp as gentlemen in London who 
knew all about the persons suggested. (P. 417, vol. 2, 1st 
series, N. J. Archives.) 

He was again on his beloved Staten Island in 1718, and signed 
with others a petition to King George the First. (N. J. Ar- 
chives, vol. 4, 1st series, pp. 344-345.) He lived in Lon- 
don for a few years before his death, which occurred in 1726, 
when he was nearly ninety years old. 

He was twice married, his first wife, probably the daughter 
of Major Farmar, bearing him two daughters, Mary and 
Anne. His second wife was Katharine Farmar, the widow of 
Jaspar Farmar, Jr., whom he married some time between the 
years 1685 and 1689, as is shown by the following, taken from 
the Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. xix, page 33, Feb. 
12, 1690. " At a meeting of the Land Commissioners a pat- 
ent was signed for Katharine Farmar, now Katharine Billopp, 
for 1250 acres of land, being her former husband, Jasper Far- 
mar's, part in the tract' of 5000 acres purchased by Major 
Farmar." Katharine bore him no children. She died in 1702, 
as on page 297 of the last mentioned volume, we are told that 



CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP, ROYAL NAVY 29 

on February 20, 1702, Thomas Farmar, her son and heir, 
asks for a resurvey of her estate. 

Captain Billopp's daughter Mary first married the Reverend 
Mr. Brooke, a clergyman, who is repeatedly mentioned in the 
most complimentary manner by his contemporaries (see Dr. 
Hawks' " History of the Church in America"). In 1707 he 
sailed for England, and the vessel, with all on board, was lost 
at sea. Mary afterward married the Reverend William Skin- 
ner of Perth Amboy, and died about 1725, before her father, 
without leaving any children. Anne married Thomas Farmar. 

The will of Captain Christopher Billopp was written in 
London, the 25th of April, 17'24. In it the Manor of Bentley 
was left to his daughter Mary during her life only, and at her 
decease to her heirs rnnli\ according to primogenature ; but, 
should she die without heir-, the property should be inherited 
by Christopher Farmar, the second son of his daughter Anne, 
and to his heirs male. Failing such issue, it was to descend in 
regular order to his brothers in succession, with like restric- 
tions. They are all mentioned by name except the eldest, Jas- 
per, and the youngest, John, the latter being born after the 
will was drawn. Jasper wax left twenty pounds. "Should 
the fates prove so against him as not to favor him with an heir 
among the Farmars, the property was to go to his ' right ' 
heirs, male, of the name of Billopp. Which name — Billopp — 
was to be assumed by such one of the Farmars as might become 
his heir." 

Mrs. Skinner having died shortly after the will was made, 
indeed, before the death of the testator (for the Reverend Wil- 
liam had another wife in March. 17^7), the property, accord- 
ing to the terms of the will, went to the Farmars, Christopher, 
the second son being dead, Thomas, the third son, inherited 
and took the name of his maternal grandfather. 

Had Mrs. Skinner inherited the property, the will states 
that she must have left it to her successors in the following 
condition : " All the messuages, out-houses, fences and other 
appurtenances in good and sufficient Reparrations, and shall 
leave in the said Mansion House of Bentley five good feather 



30 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAB. 

beds, with Sheets, Blanketts, Pillows, Curtains, Vallences, and 
other furniture thereunto Belonging, with such Brass, Pewter, 
and Wooden Ware as are Requisite for a family of six people, 
with Table Linnen and all manner of Necessaries for the 
Kitchen, fit and convenient with five pair of Iron Doggs and 
five tongs and 5 shovels for the Chambers, with a table for 
each Room, such seats as are used in that Country ; and also 
proper utensils for a Dairy, ten Cows, and sufficient casks in 
the cellar for Cyder, and all other convenienceys for Making 
of Cyder, and shall also Leave four horses and six oxen fit for 
the plough, with Carts, Plows and Harrows, and all other im- 
plements of husbandry thereunto belonging and in that coun- 
try used, of axes, shovels and the like, with ten Milch Cows 
and calves, that same spring of Year falling and raising, and 
three steers of two years old, four Heifers of two years old ; 
and ten yearlings and a Bull of two years old, two sows and a 
Boar, and one hundred Ewes and a Ram, fifty Lambs, ten 
Weathers of two years old, with what fowle shall be at the 
House." 

Joseph Billopp 

Captain Christopher Billopp's brother Joseph, to whom he 
deeded the house in the town of Beverly, came to Staten Island 
and lived at Bentley Manor in 1698. He had a power of attor- 
ney from his father, Christopher Billopp, Gentleman, of Lon- 
don, to collect debts due by John Inians and others. He re- 
ceived a patent for a lot of one acre in Perth Amboy, Novem- 
ber 30, 1699. The lot was on East High Street. Morris 
says he was a lawyer. He was appointed " Escheator in 
Chief " for New Jersey in 1710. He died in 1712, as the fol- 
lowing from the New York Historical Society's Collection for 
1893, page 87, informs us : " Whereas Joseph Billopp of 
Staten Island died intestate, Letters of Administration are 
granted to Thomas Farmar, Esq., who hath intermarried with 
Anne, the daughter of Christopher Billopp, brother of Joseph 
Billopp, April 21, 1712." Joseph Billopp's wife was named 
Mary ; no children are mentioned. 




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CHIEF-JUSTICE THOMAS FARMAR, THE FOUNDER 

WE have seen that Katharine, the widow of Jasper 
Farmar, Jr., with her son Thomas, and two 
daughters, Elizabeth and Katharine, landed from 
the good ship Bristol Merchant, John Stephens, 
commander, at Philadelphia, on the tenth day of October, 1685, 
Thomas being ten years of age at that time. It is recorded 
that in the latter part of the year 1701 he was appointed by 
William Penn, personally, who was then in Philadelphia, to 
take the position of Sheriff of Philadelphia. During the next 
three years he is frequently mentioned in the exercise of the 
duties of his office. 

He held the office of sheriff until the latter part of the year 
1704, when it is stated in the minutes of the Pennsylvania 
Provincial Council, vol. ii., page 25, that " Thomas Farmar 
High Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia ac- 
quainted y* Board that having a design to transport himself 
to England he must crave leave to lay down his said office, and 
therefore requested the Board that another might be ap- 
pointed." The writer is of the opinion that this is the first 
instance on record in America of a voluntary resignation of 
office, and he recalls no other until the time of General Wash- 
ington. 

Farmar probably went to England to sue for the hand of 
Anne Billopp, the step-daughter of his late mother, Katharine, 
whose second husband was Captain Christopher Billopp, and 
that his suit proved successful, we, his descendants, are here 
to-day to testify. The family tree or chart which the writer 
now has in his possession starts with: " Thomas Farmar, High 
Sheriff of Philadelphia and Mayor of New Brunswick, mar- 
ried Anne, the daughter and heiress of Captain Christopher 
Billopp, Royal Navy." This document was copied by the 

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34 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FAUMAR 

father of the writer from one sent to him by his grandfather, 
Colonel Christopher Billopp, the " Tory Colonel," who was 
born in the year 1737, some years before the death of his 
grandfather, Thomas Farmar, so he could have had many 
opportunities to verify its statements, and therefore the writer 
feels at liberty to use its data in this narrative. 

We next hear of Thomas Farmar residing at " Bentley 
Manor," where his eldest son, Jasper, was born in 1707, he 
having married in 1705. Up to this time and for thirty years 
later, until the time of Governor Lewis Morris, the provinces 
of New York and New Jersey had but one Governor in com- 
mon, and it was frequently the case that the Governor would 
appoint to office in one colony a gentleman who resided in the 
other. This caused considerable bitter feeling, and event- 
ually led to the appointment of separate Governors for the 
two provinces. 

Colonel Farmar, though living on Staten Island, in the 
province of New York, was a member of the New Jersey As- 
sembly in 1708, according to the New Jersey Archives, 1st 
series, vol. xiii., page 308. The first mention of him in that 
august body was on the third of March, 1708, and, according 
to vol. xxv., page 304, his last appearance there was a gener- 
ation later, November 23, 1743. 

In the New Jersay Archives, vol. iv., page 74, is to be found 
a paper sworn to and signed by Thomas Farmar, dated the 
tenth of February, 1710, and which indicates his age at that 
time, which is the writer's excuse for inserting such an unin- 
teresting document. The affidavit is as follows: 

" Thomas Farmar aged about thirty-Six years, being sol- 
emnly sworn upon y e holy Evangelist of Almighty God, doth 
depose that on or about the twelfth of May Anno. Dom. 1708, 
Thomas Gordon, Esq re ., then Speaker of y e House of Repre- 
sentatives of Her Maj'ty Province of New Jersey, being ar- 
rested by Hugh Huddy, Esq 1 "., then Sheriffe of y e County of 
Burlington, after y e Assembly was adjourned. A little time 
after Mr. Gordon did desire this deponent to go to Judge 



CHIEF-JUSTICE THOMAS KAUMKK, THE FOUNDER 35 

Pinhorn and make applycac'on on behalf of said Mr. Gordon 
for an Habeas Corpus to be admitted to baile, and accordingly 
this Depont. did apply to William Pinhorn, Esq 1 "., then Second 
Judge of y e Supreme Court, of said Province, that at y e desire 
of Mr. Gordon, he would please grant him a habeas corpus to 
be brought before him in Ord r to be Admitted to baile. To w ch 
Judge Pinhorn answered that he must apply to his Coun 11 at 
Law, this Depon 1 . replyed he believed he might do it by his 
friend, and used several arguments, to that Effect, but could 
not prevaile, with w ' '' this Depon 1 . Acquainted Mr. Gordon, 
who Imployed John Pinhorn Attorney at Law, and next morn- 
ing was admitted to Baile, and further S&itfa not 

" Thomas Farmar." 

He owned estates in New Jersey and is very frequently men- 
tioned in the Archives. In vol. iv., 1st series, page 56, Gov- 
ernor Hunter says: "Captain Farmar and Dr. Johnston are 
men of the best estates in this province." On page 49 is a 
letter from Governor Hunter to the Commissioners of Cus- 
toms, May 7, 1711: . . . "another thing I shall take 
notice of to you is Mr. Harehfield's suspending Mr. Farmar 
from his collect inns office at Aniboy in New Jersey, the sole 
reasons seems to be his non-residence, and the delay vessels 
wire put to by that means. This is in some measure true, that 
Captain Farmar did not live for sometime at Amboy. But 
it is likewise true that at the time of his suspension, and for 
some months before, he lived there with his family. And if it 
is allowable for a collector to live out of his Port, Mr. Far- 
mar had the best reason to expect of any man, for his house 
on Staten Island in the Province of New York is directly oppo- 
site Amboy, from which Port no vessel can go or come without 
his seeing it, but to take away all occasion of complaint, he 
appointed a deputy at Amboy, who duly attended there. 
I am very unwilling to give you the trouble of a 
recommendation, but the good service Mr. Farmar has done his 
Majesty in the Assembly of New Jersey, being a principal 
instrument in settling a support for the government and pro- 
moting her interests in whatever else came before that house, 



36 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

deserves some notice." On page 129, vol. iv., we read Captain 
Farmar is made a colonel and Judge of the Pleas in Middle- 
sex and Somerset (counties) ; on page 135 appears a letter 
from Colonel Thomas Farmar to Governor Hunter about sup- 
plies for the troops for Albany, written July 31, 1711. 

Another letter to Colonel Farmar at Perth Amboy (page 
137) concerns the movements of his troops. His work must 
have been very satisfactory, for his promotions and honors 
followed swiftly, as we find in the same volume, page 139, a 
letter from Governor Hunter to Jeremiah Basse, secretary, 
etc., dated October 22, 1711, as follows: 

" Sir I return you y e paper sealed w th proclamation which 
I desire you cause to be published forthwith, to make out and 
send to be sealed by the return of this post two commissions, 
for the judge of y e Supreme Court, one in the name of Thomas 
Farmar, Esq 1- ., and the other of John Reading, Esq 1 "., and 
also a Ded. protestatem, directed to David Jamison, Esq 1- ., to 
swear them. Y e time of setting for y e next Supreme Court is 
drawing on apace. Soe that you will perceive that there is a 
necessity of yo r Dispatching those things that I may have 
them by Satturday next. I am 

" Yo r humble Servt., 

" Ro. Hunter. 

" To Jeremiah Basse., Esq r ." 

The salary for the office of judge for fourteen months was 
the munificent sum of fifty pounds, and the salary for man- 
aging the Canada expedition was twenty-seven pounds ! 

In 1716, Farmar was a member of the Council. In vol. v. 
of the Archives, page 185, we find the following rather ob- 
sequious address: 

" To his Most Excellent Majesty, George the Second, of 
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the 
Faith," etc. " The humble address of the Chief Justice, sec- 
ond Judge, High Sheriff, Grand Jury, Practic'oners of the Law, 



CHIEF-JUSTICE THOMAS FARMER, THE FOUNDER 37 

and the Gierke of the Peace at a Supreme Court held at Bur- 
lington for the Western District of the Province of New Jer- 
sey, on the seventh day of May, 1728. 

"May it please your Majestic. 

" Amongst the rest of Your most Dutiful and Loyal Sub- 
jects, we beg leave with all Humility, to congratulate Your 
Majcstie upon the hope- of seeing the Publick Peace restored, 
(through Your wise and unerring conduct.) 

" As the important consequences of Y'our Majestie's Ne- 
gotiac'ons make a daily accession to Your Glory, so they give 
us an agreeable prospect of the speedy confining of the Power 
of Spain within its just Limits. 

"While the Faithful adherence of Your Allies & Parlia- 
ments, to Your Majestie in this Juncture give us a very par- 
ticular Satisfaction; we in thi> remote part ^i' Your Dominion, 
beg Leave to assure Your Majesty of our inviolable fidelity; 
and what we Bay on this occasion is not only our own, but the 
unanimous sencc (sic) of all the People of the Province, who 
would be thankful for a greater capacity to show that their 
Zeal for Your Service, is not inferior to that of the most 
approved and Loyal of their fellow Subjects. We can't with- 
out a rapture of thankfulness recount our obligation to Your 
Majestic, for your Parental care of Your People in this Dis- 
tant Colonie, Particularly for sending His Excellency, John 
Montgomcrie, Esq 1 "., to represent Your Majestie here, not 
doubting that we shall live peaceable, & happy, under his pru- 
dent administration. 

" We shall not Trespass farther upon Your Royal Patience, 
but shall offer up our fervent prayers to the King of Kings, 
that he will please direct Your Majesty by his unerring wis- 
dom, & always incline Your heart to his Glory, & encompass 
Your Sacred Person with his Favour as with a Shield, and 
make \ r our Government an universal blessing to all Your 
Dominions, is the hearty prayers of — 

"(May it Please Your Majestie) Y r our Majestie's most 
Dutiful & most Loyal Subjects & Servants. 

" We of the Grand Jury being of the People called Quakers, 



88 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

agree to the matter & substance of this Address, but make 
some exceptions to the ' Stile.' " 

The first signature is that of Thomas Farmar, Chief Jus- 
tice. 

In 1734 Governor Cosby recommends Colonel Thomas Far- 
mar to be appointed to the Council in these words: 

" I beg leave to recommend to your Lordships that you 
would be so good as to fill up and give commissions to the 
following gentlemen, namely, Colonel Thomas Farmar, John 
Rodman, and Richard Smith, who are very much esteemed in 
this country from their worth, honest character, as well as 
great estate. 

"W. Cosby." 

He was a member of the Council from 1736 to 1738, and 
again in 1744, in which last year he took an active part in the 
passage of a Militia bill, a pet measure of Governor Lewis 
Morris and the home government. The following rather un- 
usual article was published in the New York Weekly Post Boy, 
May 15, 1749, by his son, Thomas Billopp, with an introduc- 
tory note to Mr. Parker, the editor : 

" Mr. Parker : 

" If you have room in your next paper, please insert the 
following Affidavit, and my reasons for printing it therein, 
and you'll oblige, 

" Your humble Servant, 

" Thomas Billopp." 

" Whereas Mr. Philip French, of New Brunswick, in New 
Jersey, hath taken a licentious Liberty to asperse my Char- 
acter, by publickly and falsely reporting that I was the author 
and contriver of Mr. Samuel Leonard's obtaining the Patent 
mentioned in said Affidavit; and that (as he was pleased to term 
it), with a view to take the Bread out of my Father's mouth. 
Wherefore, in justice to myself, and to undeceive many others, 
I think I can do no less than publish said Affidavit and my 
reasons for so doing." 



CHIEF-JUSTICE THOMAS FARMER, THE FOUNDER 39 

Then follows the affidavit, which shows that Thomas Billopp 
was not a party to the act and knew nothing about Mr. Samuel 
Leonard (who was his father-in-law) obtaining a patent to 
the prejudice of Mr. Thomas Farmar, for keeping a ferry 
across Raritan River, opposite New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
Ife died in the year 1752. 

It appears that one son of Thomas Farmar and all three 
daughters married and settled in New Brunswick. All his large 
family had married and left the old home at Amboy, so he 
went with his daughters to New Brunswick, and there his life- 
long habit of office-holding still clung to him, for the family 
chart, ignoring the " Captain," the " Colonel,'' the "Collector 
of the Tort of Amboy," the " Member of His Majesty's Coun- 
cil," the "Judge," and the " Chief Justice," -imply tells us he 
was " High Sheriff of* Philadelphia, ami Mayor of New Bruns- 
wick." 

Thomas ami Anne (Billopp) Farmar had nine sons con- 
secutively, followed by three daughters. They were born in 
the following order: Jasper, Christopher, Thomas, Brooke, 
Edward, Robert, Samuel, William IVnn, John, Mary, Anne 
Billopp, and Elizabeth. 

The records of Jasper, Thomas, and Robert, and of their 
descendants, are given more or less completely in subsequent 
chapters. Christopher died in childhood; Brooke, named in 
honor of the husband of his mother's sister Mary, married, 
but left no children ; Edward, William, and John, a Captain 
in the English Army, died unmarried. 

Samuel Farmar, the seventh son, became a successful mer- 
chant of New York, and married Christina, the daughter of 
Benjamin Peck, of that city. They had one son, Thomas, and 
four daughters. The first, Elizabeth, married her cousin, 
Thomas Farmar, but died without children. The second 
daughter, Anne Billopp, born in 1744, married Right Reverend 
Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Connecticut, on Trinity Sunday, 
May 25, 1766. She died in 1801, aged fifty-seven years, leav- 
ing two sons. The eldest, Reverend Samuel Farmar Jarvis, 
was a prominent clergyman of the Episcopal Church. He 



40 THOMAS AND ANNE BII/LOPP FARMAR 

died in 1850, leaving a son, Reverend Samuel Farmar Jarvis 
the second, who also became a clergyman, and whose son is the 
third Samuel Farmar Jarvis. Bishop Jarvis' and Anne Far- 
mar Jarvis' second son, John Abraham Jarvis, was in the 
United States Navy, and died at Marseilles in 1834. Two 
daughters, Hannah and Griselda, died unmarried. 

The first daughter, Mary Brooke Farmar, married Paul 
Miller, and had three sons, Paul, who commanded his uncle 
Jasper's privateer, the Hercules; Christopher Billopp, who 
was commander of the brigantine True Britton, another priva- 
teer; and Thomas Farmar, who was in business with Peter 
Farmar, and whom his uncle Jasper Farmar named as one of 
his executors. 

The eleventh child, Anne Billopp Farmar, married Philip 
French, son of Philip French, one of the wealthiest men in New 
York, speaker of the New York Assembly, and Mayor of New 
York. The son, Philip, settled at New Brunswick, New Jer- 
sey. He is mentioned as one of the pall-bearers of Governor 
Lewis Morris. In 1745 he gave the site for Christ Church, 
New Brunswick. 

The following is taken from the Boston Evening Post, 

March 23, 1741 : 

"We have the melancholly News from New Brunswick, in 
New Jersey, that a few Days since, in the dead of Night a Fire 
broke out in the famous New House of Mr. Philip French (a 
Gentleman of that City) which consumed the same, with all 
the rich Furniture therein ; Mr. French and his Family hardly 
escaped with their Lives, one of his Daughters, (to save her 
Life) was forced to jump out of a Window two Stories high. 
No other House took Fire from this, it being built at a small 
Distance from said City of Brunswick. It was one of the 
largest and most complete Houses in the Province and had 
been built but little more than one year." 

He left several children ; one daughter named Anne Billopp 
French, and one son named Christopher French, who was a 
major in the English Army during the Revolution. The fol- 



CHIEF-JUSTICE THOMAS FAEHES, THE FOUNDER 41 

lowing letters (New York Historical Collection, 1871, page 
241) in connection with this gentleman are interesting: 
From General Charles Lee to General Washington. 

" Dear General: 

" Major French whom I have met with at Hartford, is ex- 
tremely solicitous for permission to return home, as he is con- 
fident that his whole fortunes depend upon his being immedi- 
ately on the spot at this instant. As he is, I believe, a man 
of strict honor, his parole not to serve for a given time against 
the freedom of America, would be sufficient security; and as 
he has a family t<> provide for, it would certainly be humane 
and charitable to indulge him, nor can I see any inconvenience 
which would attend the indulgence; there may be some objec- 
tions, which do not perhaps, occur to me, but I could wish for 
my own part, that as so much depends upon it, he might be 
gratified; however, I beg you will excuse submitting the mat- 
ter to your consideration. 

" I am, dear General, 

" Your most obt. humble servant, 

" Charles Lee. 

"To His Excellency, General Washington." 

Letter from Christopher French to General Charles Lee: 

" Hartford, IS May, 1776. 
" Sir : 

" You no doubt remember that when you passed through this 
Place in January last, you made a Bett of Ten Guineas with 
me that Quebec would be taken by the Provincials in the Course 
of the current Winter; That event has not happened (nor is 
there now the least prospect that it ever will, as there are 
accounts, not only of its having been reinforced by part of 
his Majesty's Fleet and a large body of his Troops, but that 
His Excellency, Gen 1 . Carleton, has drove them entirely from 
before it) &, indeed your own Papers, unaccustomed as they 
are to communicate to the Public anything which argues 
against their Success, have lately inserted some very despond- 



42 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 

ent Letters from that Quarter, I cannot be so gross as to wish 
you had (met) with success yet I am not so much yours as 
to envy you the Honor you might have acquired by a well- 
concerted Retreat, which, though you might not have effected, 
yet I know you would have attempted, a circumstance which 
from your being at the head of such raw & undisciplined 
Forces could only have added to the brilliancy of your meas- 
ures. You will be pleased to direct Mr. Lawrence, Treasurer 
here, to pay me, which will much oblige, 

" Sir, Your most obt. hble. Servant, 

" Chris. French. 
" To Gen 1 . Lee, 
" Williamsburg, 

" Savannah, Georgia." 

The twelfth child, Elizabeth Farmar, married Dr. William 
Farquhar. They lived at New Brunswick, N. J. Very little 
is known about this gentleman, but the following shows that 
he kept good company. 

There appears in the Pennsylvania Gazette, March 16. 
1746-7, an advertisement of an estate for sale, near New 
Brunswick, N. J. The last paragraph reads as follows : 

" Whoever inclines to purchase may apply to Doctor Wil- 
liam Farquhar, in New York, Benjamin Franklin, in Philadel- 
phia, or Jacob Janeway, living on the premises, and be in- 
formed of the conditions of sale." 

The same appears in the New York Gazette, revised in the 
Weekly Post Boy, August 10, 1747, except it reads : " Ben- 
jamin Franklin, at Philadelphia, Printer." 



IV 



CAPTAIN JASPER- FA KM AH AND HIS SON, 
MAJOR JASPER FARMAR 



IV 

CAPTAIN JASPER 2 FARMAB AND HIS SON, 
MAJOR JASPER FARMAR 

Captain Jasper Ear. mar 

JASPER, the elded son of Thomas and Anne (Billopp) 
Farmar, was horn in the "Old Billopp House," Bentley 
Manor, States Eland, New York, in the year 1707. In 
his early life he is frequently mentioned in the New 
York Historical Society's Collections, as owner and captain of 
the ship Katharine. But in the year 1746 he became commis- 
sioner of pilots in New York, and continued in this position 
until 1752. (Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, vol. ii., 
page 600.) 

It is probable that at the same time he was engaged in a 
very successful mercantile business, for in the same volume 
we find he is engaged in fitting out privateers during the war 
with Erench and Spain ; and Whitehead, in his " Early His- 
tory of Perth Amboy," always speaks of him as a merchant. 
On page 659 of the same volume of the Calendar of Historical 
Manuscripts is stated that on September 20, 1756, Nathaniel 
Manton and Jasper Farmar of New York, Merchants, owners 
of the schooner Peggy, twenty guns, petition for a commis- 
sion for Richard Haddon, as commander of said schooner, and 
Christopher Miller as first lieutenant, and John Marshall, 
second lieutenant. But alas ! I fear the Peggy brought trouble 
to her owners, for on page 694 it is mentioned that on No- 
vember 3, 1758, after Captain Jasper's death, proclamation 
was made for the apprehension of Richard Haddon, comman- 
der of the privateer Peggy, on a charge of piracy, in seizing 
and plundering the Spanish schooner La Virgin, accompanied 
with numerous petitions from officers and passengers of the 
unfortunate Spanish schooner. But Farmar's course must 

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46 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

have been vindicated, for his son and executor, Peter Farmar, 
after that incident, secures a commission for Andrew Elliott 
as captain of his ship Philadelphia, eight guns. He had, how- 
ever, previously sent out the dogger Decoy, six guns, with 
Isaac Seers, captain ; and the brigantine True Britton, four- 
teen guns, with his nephew, Christopher Miller, as commander. 
The same Christopher who had been first lieutenant of the 
Peggy, and he had also sent out the ship Hercules, of eighteen 
guns, with Paul Miller, his nephew, the son of his sister Mary, 
as captain. 

Whitehead tells us that he commanded an artillery company 
in New York City, and is therefore generally styled " Cap- 
tain." On the news of the surrender of Fort William Henry 
in August, 1757, he gallantly set off with his company for 
the seat of war, but before he reached his destination he was 
recalled by Colonel DeLancy. It is probable that previous to 
this time he had been a prisoner, as a Captain Farmar of 
New York is mentioned as being detained at Quebec. He died 
April 23d, 1758, in the fifty-first year of his age. 

The New York Gazette, and the Weekly Post Boy, of May 
1, 1758, gives the following account of his death: 

" New York, May 1st, 1758. On Sunday morning, the 23rd 
about two o'clock, Captain Jasper Farmar, of the Militia 
train, with a number of his company, went on board the 

snow Charming Jenny, Scott, Master, then lying 

along the new dock in order to impress men for the transport 
service, who having impressed several, four of the crew, more 
obstinate than the rest, retired into the Round House, and 
there armed themselves with Blunderbusses, and altho' Cap- 
tain Farmar and a Magistrate then standing on the dock, de- 
sired them in an amicable manner, to surrender, promising 
they should not go on board the Man of War, but serve on 
board the Transport, yet they obstinately refused, and fired 
their Blunderbusses through the loop holes, and wounded Cap- 
tain Farmar in the neck, of which wound he languished until 
about ten o'clock of the evening of the same day, when he 

died. 

" The fellows did not surrender 'till an officer with a party 



CAPTAIN JASPER FARMAR 47 

of Regulars came down and fired a volley into the Round 
House, which, not damaging any of them, they were seized 
and are all in custody. The Coroner's Inquest having sat two 
days, brought in their verdict, murder, in four persons belong- 
ing to the said snow." 

And the New York Mercury, Monday, May 1, 1758, says: 

" Sunday the 24th* untimo, at night, Mr. Jaspar Farmar of 
this city, departed this life, after a short illness in the 51st 
year of his age. His remains were decently interred on Tues- 
day following, in Trinity Church. Hi- was a gentleman re- 
markable for a noble spirit of patriotism. No fatigues, diffi- 
culties or dangers, wlun his country's good required it, could 
in the least discourage him. The various instances he has 
given of his uncommon loyalty are too numerous, and too 
deeply impressed upon the minds of all those who knew him, 
to require a present recapitulation. His Honesty in Trade, 
his affable, humane and generous disposition, procured him 
not only the good-will and affection of his intimate acquaint- 
ances, but likewise of all such as had the least knowledge of his 
character, which nothing could more fully evince than the 
unusual sorrow and dejection displayed by the inhabitants of 
this City, on the news of his death. The second independent 
Artillery Company belonging to our Militia, which he himself 
raised, and had the command of, testified their high respect 
towards him, by a voluntary appearance, under arms, at his 
funeral, marching before the corpse to the Grave, and per- 
forming the military ceremonies with unusual solemnity." 

" Lo ! Farmar now no more does act below. 
He's now enlarged and free from human woe. 
In death secure, his vital breath has done 
And left his country to bemoan a son. 
A man rever'd, as social and a friend, 
A publick good and Patriot to the end. 
Hard Fate, and inauspicious death, 
To rob us of that life, that useful breath ! 
No common loss, this is, which we deplore, 
A Beneficial man is now no more ! 
Let this be said — this never be denied: 
Farmar beloved lived, lamented died." 

'This is an error of the Mercury: Sunday was the 23d. 



48 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

In the New York Historical Society's Collections, of 1896, 
page 231, is found the very brief will of Jasper Farmar: 

" In the name of God, Amen, I, Jasper Farmar, of New 
York, Merchant, being unfortunately and dangerously wound- 
ed, but in my perfect senses . . . All debts and funeral 
charges to be paid, I leave to my wife, Mary, ^ of my personal 
estate, 3 to my son Jasper, and ^ to my son Peter. I leave 
to my wife Mary Farmar, ^ of all my real estate, and § to my 
two sons. I make my wife and my son Peter and my nephew, 
Thomas Miller, executors. Dated April 23, 1758. I leave 
to my wife Mary, my negro wench ' Ann ' before any division 
of my estate." Proved May 9, 1758. 

Mary, the wife of Jasper Farmar, was the widow of Henry 
Meyer, Jr., and the daughter of Abraham Gouveneur and his 
wife Mary ; the latter the daughter of the famous and ill-fated 
Jacob Leishler. She was a widow when she married Gouv- 
eneur, her first husband, Milborne, and her father having been 
executed at the same time for treason. Mary Farmar sur- 
vived her husband thirty years, and died in 1788. 

The Daily Advertiser, Monday, March 17, 1788, contains 
the following notice of her death and funeral: 

" On Tuesday last departed this life, in the 71st year of 
her age, after a tedious illness, which she bore with great resig- 
nation and Christian Fortitude, Mrs. Mary Farmar, a lady 
whose goodness of heart and cheerful disposition endeared her 
to all ranks and descriptions of people who enjoyed the pleas- 
ure of her acquaintance. Her dying request was that her 
funeral might be conducted according to the ancient Dutch 
custom, strict observance of which she had expressly enjoyned 
in her last will and testament. Her remains were accordingly 
interred on Friday last near the chancel, in Trinity Church, 
next to the remains of her deceased husband, the late Captain 
Jasper Farmar. The followers, after being liberally supplied 
with spiced wine, pipes, and tobacco, moved in procession from 
her house in Hanover Square, and proceeded up Wall Street 
in the following order: 



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RELATIONS 
DOCTORS 

Rev. Dr. Rogers and Domine Gross 

Bishop Provost and Clergy of the Episcopal Church 

Dutch Clergy 

Citizens 

" She's now relieved from a world of woe, 
Eternal wisdom hath conceived it best 
On her a crown of glory to bestow, 
With saints above in her Redeemer's rest." 

MAJOR JASPER 3 FARMAR 
Major Jasper 3 , the eldest son of Captain Jasper Farmar, 
according to the English Army List, entered the English 
Army at an early age. He was appointed an ensign in the 
Twenty-first Regiment of Foot (or Royal North Briton Fusi- 
leers) in December, 1762. His regiment saw almost constant 
service in the West Indies and North America. At one time, 
while he was a lieutenant, he commanded Fort Charlotte at 
Mobile, but was not there at the time of its capitulation. He 
served through each grade and was made a major November 
18, 1790. He retired from the army in 1795. 



50 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FAEMAE 

Dunlap says one of the few pictures by Reynolds in this 
country is of Jasper Farmar in his youth. He is said to have 
been extremely prepossessing in his personal appearance. 

He married and had several children. A daughter of Major 
Farmar married a Mr. Murphy of Nova Scotia, and left sev- 
eral children. Peter was long engaged in business in New 
York. He left a son, Jasper, whose daughter Anne married 
Mr. Cayle. 



MAJOR THOMAS 2 BILLOPP AND SOME 
DESCENDANTS 




Monument at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela 
Erected in the Venezuelan Government as a Memorial to the Americans executed in 1806 



MAJOR THOMAS 2 BILLOPP AND SOME 
DESCENDANTS 

Major Thomas BlLLOPF 

THOMAS, the third son of Thomas and Anne (Billopp) 
Farmar, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 
the year 1711. 

As directed by the will of his grandfather, Cap- 
tain Christopher Billopp, in regard to his heir, as previously 
mentioned, Thomas, when he became of age, dropped the sur- 
name of Farmar, and assumed that of Billopp, and came into 
possession of the noble estate of " Bentley Manor." In 1740 
he materially assisted his brother Robert to raise a company 
of 103 men to take to the war, which gained for the latter 
his commission as captain, and this, so far as there is any 
documentary evidence to show, seems to be nearly all that he 
did. It is true, he married — yes, married twice, and left sons 
and daughters — but the eighteen years between his majority 
and his death were very stirring and troublous times with the 
colonies, and the writer thinks that if his fortune had not been 
ready made for him there would have been much more said 
about him in the history of his times. 

His first wife was Eugenia Stelle, by whom he had two 
daughters, but one of them died quite young, as only one, 
" Anne," is mentioned in his will. Eugenia was a year younger 
than her husband. He must have married young, for after 
having borne him two children, she died, March 22, 1735-6. 
Her gravestone bears the following inscription: 

" Here Lyes ye Body of 
Eujenia 
Ye Wife of Thomas 

Billopp aged 23 

years. Dec'd March 

ye 22d 1735-6." 

53 



54) THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

Thomas took for his second wife Sarah, the daughter of 
Mr. Samuel Leonard, of New Jersey. His wife, Sarah, was the 
mother of eight children; three sons — Christopher, Thomas, 
and Jasper Farmar ; and five daughters — Mary, Elizabeth, 
Rachel, Sarah, and Katharine. Katharine was probably born 
after her father's death. 

Thomas Billopp was judge in his county, and major of the 
local Battalion. He died the 2nd of August, 1750, in his 
thirty-ninth year. He appears to have been a man of con- 
siderable prominence. His grave was beside that of his first 
l ove — Eugenia. The tombstone bears the inscription: 

" Here Lyes y« Body of 
Thomas Billopp, Esq>\, 
son of Thomas Farmar, 
Esqr. Dec'd August y° 
2d 1750. In ye 39th 
year of his age." 

He and Eugenia were buried in the family burying-ground, 

near the " Old Billopp House," on Bentley Manor. 

Thomas Billopp left a will, an abstract of which has been 
printed in the New York Historical Society's Collections, for 
1895, page 297, which reads as follows: 

" In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Billopp, of Staten 
Island, Esq., being in health, and of sound mind, my temporal 
estate I dispose of as f olloweth : ' And although I will as the 
Law wills, in several cases, yet I think it best to declare my 
mind therein.' My executors are to sell all personal property 
not herein disposed of at public vendue. I leave to my wife 
Sarah, a negro woman, and her child, and my riding chair, 
and the choice of my horses, and £500 in lieu of dower. I 
leave to my eldest daughter, Anne, whom I had by my first 
wife, £100 and my silver teapot. I leave to my eldest son, 
Christopher Billopp, all the certain part of my lands called 
the Manor of Bentley, on Staten Island. [Here are inserted 
the boundary lines.] And also all the mines and minerals in 
the other part of the Manor of Bentley, and he is to have the 
overplus of my personal estate, after paying debts, when he is 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 55 

of age. If he dies under age, the said lands are to go to my 
son Thomas, and if he dies, then to my son Jasper Farmar 
Billopp. All the rest of my lands are to be sold by my exec- 
utors, and after paying debts and legacies the remainder is to 
be paid to all my children except Christopher. If my wife 
shall bear me a child, it shall have an equal share. If I should 
purchase any lands a iter the date of this will, all such are to 
be sold and the proceeds to go to my children. I make my 
wife, Sarah, ami my friend Paul Michaux and my son Chris- 
topher (when of age) executors. 

"Dated October 5, 171!). Witnesses Elizabeth Seaman, 
Rachel Leonard, Benjamin Seaman." 

"Codicil:— 'The Testator did on the 10 of October, 1749, 
call for his will ' and ordered that all his silver plate, (except 
the siher teapot) he given to his wit'.', and >he shall have the 
choice of the feather beds, with pillows, etc., and all table linen, 
and chest of drawers and dining table. He haves to his eldest 
daughter, Anne, a large white bed quilt. He leaves to his son 
Christopher all the family pictures and looking glasses, etc., 
and * my large, square copper kettle.' Witnesses: Richard 
Charlton, Jasper Farmar." 

In 1748 his friend and executor, Paul Miehaux, had also 
made his will, and. among other things, had also left to his 
wife a negro woman, and his M riding chair " and a good 
horse, and after disposing of much other property, had named 
" My trusted friend, Thomas Billopp," to be one of his ex- 
ecutors. 

All of Thomas Billopp's children, except Christopher, after 
their father's death, reassumed the name of Farmar, which 
fact has added not a little to the mystification of the historians 
who have attempted to unravel the tangled thread of the 
family alliance. 

Anne died in the year 1752. 

Mary married Colonel Davis, of the Army. On page 144 
of the 22d volume of the 1st series of the New Jersey Ar- 
chives, it is stated that Elizabeth Farmar married on the 26th 



56 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

of October, 1775, in Christ Church, New Brunswick, N. J., 
Peter Goelet, Esq., of New York. She bore him two sons — 
Thomas Farmar and Christopher Billopp — but died early, and 
Peter consoled himself with a second wife in the person of her 
younger sister, Rachel. The following is the notice of Sarah 
Farmar's marriage, from Rivington, New York, Gazette, 
Thursday, February 16, 1775: 

" Saturday Night last was Married at Trinity Church by 
the Reverend Dr. Auchtmuty, Alexander Ross, Esq., of Mid- 
dlesex County, New Jersey, to Miss Sallie Farmar, sister to 
Christopher Billopp, Esq., member of the Honorable House of 
Assembly, for Richmond County." Their descendants are now 
living in New York. 

Katherine married Mr. Effingham Lawrence of New York, 
afterward of London, where he became an eminent merchant. 
She died in 1806- Her daughter, Katharine Mary Lawrence, 
married on April 20, 1816, Major General Sir John Thomas 
Jones, Bart., A. D. C. to the Duke of Wellington, and after- 
ward to Queen Victoria. He was Chief of Engineers on the 
staff of the Duke of Wellington, was created a Baronet Sep- 
tember 30, 1831, and was promoted to Major General in 1837. 
He ranked among the first military engineers of his time. He 
died at his residence, Pittsville, Cheltenham, February 25, 
1843. A statue to his memory, by Behnes, was erected in the 
south transept of St. Paul's Cathedral, by the officers of the 
Royal Engineer Corps. His son Lawrence, 2nd Baronet, was 
killed by Greek brigands in 1845. His second son, Sir Wil- 
loughby, 3rd Baronet, married his cousin, Emily, daughter of 
Henry S. Jones, and died August 20, 1884. His son, Sir 
Lawrence John Jones, 4th Baronet, was born August 15, 1857, 
and married April 13, 1882, Evelyn Mary, daughter of James 
Johnstone Bevan, Esq. Seven children were born to them — 
Willoughby John, Lawrence, Evelyn, Barham Edward, Mau- 
rice Herbert, Hester, Katharine, Rachel Margaret ; seat, Cran- 
mer Hall, Kakenham, Norfolkshire. In their portrait gallery 
are the old Billopp family portraits, willed by Thomas Billopp 
to his son Christopher. 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 57 

Thomas (Major Thomas 2 Billopp, Thomas 1 Farmar) first 
married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of his father's brother, 
Samuel Farmar. His second wife was the widow of his brother 
Jasper, who had married, in 1771, Susannah, the beautiful 
daughter of Courtland Skinner, of Perth Amboy. There were 
no children. Thomas is mentioned as being vestryman of St. 
Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, from 1785 to 1788. 

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher 3 Billopp 

Colonel Chistopher 3 Billopp, the eldest son of Major Thomas 
Billopp, was born in 1737, in the " Old Billopp House " on 
Bcntley Manor, Staten Island. There was at that time a 
famous school at Perth Amboy, which opportunity he im- 
proved by acquiring, for that period, an excellent education. 
He took great interest in the political questions of the day, 
and soon after he attained his majority he represented his 
county in the New York Assembly, and took part in all the 
debates relating to the trouble with the Mother Country. From 
the very first he w&S a pronounced Loyalist, and did all in his 
power to prevent an open rupture between the Colonies and 
Great Britain, but when it came, there was not a moment's 
hesitation on his part. His duty, as he saw it, was to support, 
defend, and aid, with all his power, with his mind, body, and 
estate, that Crown which had been so liberal and generous to 
his family for generations. 

As soon as the war had really begun, he accepted a lieuten- 
ant colonel's commission and commanded a corps of Loyalists 
raised on Staten Island, and was from that time until the end 
of the war employed in military duties. The Continentals were 
never in force on Staten Island, but they held that section 
of New Jersey for several years, and as they could watch his 
house from Perth Amboy, they were constantly on the alert to 
catch the " Tory Colonel," and twice succeeded. On one of 
these occasions he was confined in the jail at Burlington. The 
patriot Commissary of Prisoners, Mr. Boudinot, in the war- 
rant of commitment, directed that irons should be put on his 
hands and feet, that he should be chained to the floor of a close 



58 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR. 

room, and that he should be fed on bread and water, which was 
done, it is said, in retaliation for the cruel treatment of two 
Whig officers who had fallen into the hands of the Royal 
troops. 

In 1782 Colonel Billopp was Superintendent of Police of 
Staten Island. 

His estate, Bentley Manor, and also the estate of his father- 
in-law, Benjamin Seaman, were confiscated by an act of the 
New York Legislature in the year 1776. 

At the " Old Billopp House " Lord Howe, as Commissioner 
of the King, met Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge, 
a committee of the Continental Congress, in the hope of ad- 
justing difficulties and of inducing the Colonies to return to 
their allegiance. Lord Howe, General Kniphausen, Colonel 
Simcoe and other officers of rank were frequent guests of 
Colonel Billopp at this old house. 

After the war, Colonel Billopp, with all his family, except 
his two sons, settled at St. John, New Brunswick, and for 
many years bore a part in the administration of affairs. He 
was a member of the House of Assembly, and of the Council, 
and on the death of Governor Smith, in 1823, he claimed the 
vacant position ; but as he was then nearly ninety years old, 
a younger man was chosen, and his competitor, the Honorable 
Ward Chapman, was sworn into office. He died at St. John, 
March 28, 1827, aged ninety years. From Mr. Morris' " His- 
tory of Staten Island," page 147, is quoted: 

" The St. John Daily Telegraph, March 29, 1827 (some- 
thing of a prophetic name for a paper then), contained the 
following notice: 

* Died, last evening, in the ninetieth year of his age, the 
Hon. C. Billopp, a member of His Majesty's Council in this 
Province. He was formerly of Staten Island, New York, 
where he owned a very valuable property, but from which he 
was driven by his firm and inflexible loyalty ; for his intrepid 
zeal and indefatigable exertions in the Royal cause during the 
American Rebellion, brought upon him the vengeance of the 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 59 

Revolutionary government and placed him and his possessions 
in the proscribed list. Since then he has resided in this Prov- 
ince, and was an active and useful representaive in its first 
House of Assembly; and during a long life he has ever been 
distinguished for the strictest honor and integrity and an 
undeviating independence of mind. His funeral will take place 
from his late residence in King Street next Monday at two 
o'clock, when the friends of the family are respectfully re- 
quested to attend.' " 

From the same work is the following description of Colonel 
Billopp: "He was a very tall, rather slender, soldierly look- 
ing man when in his prime. He was exceedingly proud, and his 
pride at times led him to the verge of hauteur, yet he was kind- 
hearted, not only to those whom he considered his equals, but 
to In- Blavee and to the poor people of the Island. No one 
went from his door at the old Manor hungry. It was his cus- 
tom to gather the people of the Island once a year on the lawn 
in front of his house and hold a harvest-home. He delighted 
to talk to them and give advice for their welfare. He was 
very popular. He was fond of dress and scrupulously neat 
in his attire. He Kept his coach and liveried driver and foot- 
man. Passionately fond of horses, his stable was filled with 
the finest bred animals in the land. He was a magnificent rider 
and was very fond of the saddle. He was an expert shot with 
the pistol, which once saved his life when attacked by robbers. 
Colonel Billopp was not a man to take advice unless it instantly 
met his favor. He generally regarded his own opinion supe- 
rior to that of others, especially if theirs did not accord with 
his. 

" Life-long friends pleaded with him to join the cause of in- 
dependence at the commencement of the Revolution, but he 
chose to follow the fortunes of Royalty. He was a good citi- 
zen, a noble man. his misfortune being that he was on the 
losing side of a cause in which he had everything at stake." 

The following inscription is on his tomb: 



60 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

" Sacred to the memory of the 
Honorable Christopher Billopp, 
a member of His Majesty's Council 
in this Province, whose uncompro- 
mising Loyalty and distinguished 
exertions as a Lieutenant Colonel 
in the Royal Cause during the American 
rebellion obliged him at the termination 
of that contest to abandon without com- 
pensation, his hereditary property on Staten 
Island and retire with his family 
to this colony, wherein he since resided 
at St. John, universally respected. 

" He died on the 28th day of March, 1827, 
in the ninetieth year of his age." 

Colonel Billopp was twice married. His first wife was Fran- 
ces Willett, by whom he had two sons, Thomas and John Wil- 
lett Billopp, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Kath- 
erine Billopp. Elizabeth married Mr. Robinson of St. John, 
New Brunswick, and had four children. The eldest, Frances 
Robinson, married Doctor Bayard of St. John. The second 
daughter, Mary Robinson, married Major Short. 

Sarah, Colonel Billopp's second daughter, married Henry 
Seaman of New York, and had four children — Billopp, who 
married Miss Kortright; Jasper and Edmund, unmarried; and 
Frances, who married Mr. Townsend. 

The Colonel's third daughter, Katherine, died in infancy. 

Colonel Billopp's second wife, Jane Seaman, daughter of 
Benjamin Seaman, of Staten Island, bore him five daughters, 
and died in St. John, New Brunswick, in 1802, aged forty- 
eight years. Her daughters were Katharine, who married Hon. 
John Black of Halifax, and left a son and daughter ; Jane, 
who married Hon. William Black of St. John, and had three 
sons and three daughters; Louisa, who married John Wallace; 
Mary, who married Archdeacon Willis, and left children, and 
Anne, who died unmarried. 

In speaking of the descendants of the daughters of Colonel 
Christopher Billopp, Mr. Morris, in his " History of Staten 
Island," has the following: " The descendants of Colonel 
Christopher Billopp have passed on to the fourth generation, 



MAJOR THOMAS HILLOPP 61 

and are now scattered throughout the Dominion of Canada and 
England. They are people of whom any community might 
well be proud. The four grandsons of Mary Billopp Willis 
are the Rev. Robert S. Willis of England, the Rev. Cuthbert 
Willis of Halifax, John Willis of Halifax, and William Chris- 
topher Willis of Glasgow, Scotland. 

" The grandchildren of Jane Rillopp Black are the Honor- 
able John Black, member of the Provincial Legislature of New 
Brunswick, and Mrs. Harriet Paddock, wife of Morris V. Pad- 
dock, of St. John. This estimable lady visited 'The Old Bil- 
lopp House' in company with the writer" (Mr. Ira K. Mor- 
ris), " in the autumn of 1896. She inspected the various rooms 
with an interest indescribable, and beheld them with a sacred 
awe worthy of the honorable memory of her ancestors. Here 
and there she gathered a mute trophy to carry to her far- 
off home to keep as treasured mementoes of this most memor- 
able day of her life." 

Both the Colonel's sou- Beem to have inherited that spirit 
of adventure bo prominently developed in their ancestors, al- 
though it is said they did not inherit the spirit of loyalty to 
the King evinced by their father. 

The second son, John Willett Billopp. was born in 1769. He 
was in Paris, France, during the Reign of Terror of the French 
Revolution, for in an article entitled " Paine and the French 
Revolution," published by the Honorable E. B. Washburn, 
President Grant's Minister to France, in vol. xx. of Scribner's 
Monthly Magazine, there is quoted an appeal by American 
citizens then in Paris, addressed to the National Convention, 
petitioning for the release of Thomas Paine, who was then a 
prisoner, and among the names of the signers of the petition is 
that of "John Willett Billopp, of New York." But a few 
years later he was again in New York engaged in business with 
his older brother, Thomas. In 1798 New York experienced an 
epidemic of yellow fever, and the ravages of the disease were 
very terrible. Thomas was married and had three children, one 
an infant born that year, so he was persuaded by his generous 
brother to go with his family out of the city until the danger 



62 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

had passed, while he — John — who was not married, would re- 
main and look after the business. So John remained, was a 
victim of his generosity, and died from the fever. 

Thomas 4 Billopp 

Thomas 4 (Col. Christopher 3 , Maj. Thomas 2 Billopp, 
Thomas 1 Farmar), the Colonel's eldest son, was born in the 
year 1767. He was, according to Thomas Jones' " History of 
New York," employed as clerk to his father, the Superintend- 
ent of Police of Staten Island, in the year 1777. He was then 
only ten years old. After the close of the war he engaged in 
business in New York City. In 1790, he married Abigail, the 
youngest daughter of John Moore, of Newtown, Long Island. 
Can anything more be said to show the sweet and lovely dispo- 
sition of this amiable lady than that her death, at an advanced 
age, in 1834, caused her son-in-law such poignant grief that he 
could not survive it, but soon followed her to the grave? 
Thomas and Abigail Billopp had six children — Mary Lawrence 
Billopp married Mr. Grundy of Baltimore; Frances Billopp 
married Rev. William Edward Wyatt, D. D. ; Christopher Bil- 
lopp, born in 1798, unmarried, died in 1820; Elizabeth Farmar 
Billopp, born in 1800, died in 1805; John Moore Billopp, born 
in 1802, died at Mobile, Alabama, in 1835; Thomas Farmar 
Billopp, born May 22, 1805, died September, 1876. 

Thomas Billopp's business was ruined by the yellow fever 
scourge and the death of his brother in 1798. He struggled 
manfully for several years to retrieve his fortunes, but so 
bitter was his chagrin at his lack of success that he was at last 
driven almost to despair. 

It was at this time, when his fortunes were at such a low 
ebb, that Francisco Miranda, a Venzuelan revolutionist, ap- 
peared in New York. Miranda had been in the French service 
in the American Revolution and had been one of Washington's 
aides. He went to South America in 1783, with ideas of lib- 
erating the Spanish colonies and establishing a republic on the 
American plan, with himself as the Washington, but his 
schemes were discovered and he fled to Europe. He was again 




( \ PT \ I \ Thom \> Hll.l OPP 

From :i Contemporarj Miniature now owned by 
Mi---* Elinor Billopp, his Great-Granddaughter 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 63 

in the French service as Gcneral-of-Division in 1792-3. In 
1806 he fitted out an expedition in the United States and sailed 
for South America, with a view of establishing a republic at 
Caracas, but was not successful. Toward the close of 1810 
he again went to South America and succeeded in putting the 
republic on its feet ; but becoming a rival of Bolivar, he was 
delivered by the latter to the Spaniards and carried to Cadiz, 
where he died in prison. Miranda was a man of great ability, 
polished manners, and gnat personal magnetism. He had 
been at nearly everj court of Europe, and was for a time a 
high favorite of the fickle Catharine of Russia. He was, with 
his schemes, received in New York with great enthusiasm. 
Over thirty thousand dollars were subscribed by the merchants 
of New York, and he soon procured men enough to fit out an 
expedition of three ships. 

Thomas Billopp, after eight years of unsuccessful struggle 
against adverse fortune, and inspired by that spirit of adven- 
ture inherited from his fathers, nut the affable adventurer and 
was quickly won to the support of his cause. Miranda ap- 
pointed him a captain, with many liberal promises of early 
advancement. The expedition sailed from New York Febru- 
ary 2, 1806, and after waiting a long time near Hayti for 
another ship, which was to meet him there, but never came, 
Miranda sailed for Venezuela. On the 27th of April he had 
his first and only encounter with the enemy, in which two of 
his ships were captured and his own took to flight. The prin- 
cipal officers captured on the ill-fated ships were tried and 
found guilty of an attempt to incite a rebellion, and were exe- 
cuted in the fort at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, on the 21st 
of July, 1806. They were Captain Thomas Billopp, Captain 
Thomas Donohue, Lieutenant Gustavus A. Bergerd, Lieuten- 
ant Charles Johnson, Lieutenant Daniel Kemper, Lieutenant 
Miles L. Hall, Lieutenant Paul F. George, Lieutenant James 
Gardiner, Lieutenant John Ferris, and Second Lieutenant 
Francis Farquarson. 

In 1895, through the efforts of the then President of Vene- 
zuela, General Andrade, his government erected in honor of 



64 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

these American citizens, on the spot where they were executed, 
a beautiful monument. It is an imposing and handsome struc- 
ture in bronze, resting on a granite pedestal, and is sixty-five 
feet high, on top of which is a condor, in bronze, just spread- 
ing its wings to soar. The front panel of the pedestal con- 
tains the coats of arms of the United States and Venezuela 
interwoven. On the rear panel there is a bronze crown of 
laurel and palm, and on the east panel a bronze plate contain- 
ing the names of the men in whose honor the monument was 
erected. The monument was dedicated on February 25, 1895, 
by the government. The Minister of Public Works delivered 
the oration, and Mr. W. W. Russell, the Secretary of the 
United States Legation, made a few happy remarks, closing 
with the following apt quotation : 

" Whether on scaffold high, 
Or in the battle's van, 
The noblest place for man to die 
Is where he dies for man." 

Mary Lawrence 5 Billopp 

Mary Lawrence 5 Billopp (Thomas 4 , Col. Christopher 3 , Maj. 
Thomas 2 Billopp, Thomas 1 Farmar) married George Kerr 
Grundy of Baltimore. Their first son, George Kerr Grundy, 
of Elizabeth, New Jersey, married and left children. Their 
second son, Thomas Billopp Grundy, married Clara Haxhall, 
of Richmond Va., and left two daughters, both married. By- 
ram and Frances Billopp Grundy both died unmarried. 

Frances 5 (Billopp) Wyatt and Descendants 

Frances 5 Billopp married Rev. William Edward Wyatt, D. 
D., S. T. D. Dr. Wyatt graduated from Columbia College in 
the class of 1809, and received his A. M. in 1816; was or- 
dained priest in 1813, and was called to the rectorship of St. 
Paul's in Baltimore, Md., in 1817. He was the son of James 
Wyatt and Mary Winslow, daughter of Rev. Edward Winslow, 
rector of St. George's Church, New York, who died in the 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 65 

chancel of that church, and was there buried. Mary Winslow 
was a descendant of Mary Chilton, who came over in the May- 
flower, 1620, and married John Winslow, brother of Governor 
Edward Winslow, who came in the Fortune, 1621. Dr. Wyatt 
was very prominent in all church affairs of his time, being 
leader of the old High Church party. For a number of years 
he was President of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies of 
the General Convention. He was respected and admired by 
all whe knew him. He died in 1864, surviving his wife one 
year, and leaving seven sons and four daughters, as follows: 

1 William Edward Wyatt, born in 1S16. married Margaret 
Klizabeth Noel. He died in 1 H(j(>, leaving one son, James 
Bosley Noel, who is now a leading architect of Balti- 
more, Md. 

2 The Rev. Thomas James Wyatt, married Maria Louise 
Fischer. She died, leaving no children, when he married 
Sophia Louise Hollingsworth. She died, leaving two chil- 
dren : 

1 William Edward Wyatt. married Fanny Rich; child: 

1 Arthur Rich Wyatt. 

2 Sophia Louise Hollingsworth Wyatt, married Rose- 
well Graves; children: 

1 Sophia Anne Graves. 

2 Evelyn Wyatt Graves, 

.'J Rosewell Elizabeth Graves. 

The Rev. Thomas James Wyatt's third wife was Mary 
Louise Jones, who bore him two children: 
S Thomas Wyatt. 

4> Mary L. Wyatt, who as a miniature painter has been 
accorded favorable notice at the Paris Salon. 

3 Frances Billopp Wyatt, married George Somerville Norris 
of Baltimore; children: 

1 William Wyatt Norris, married Mary Ridgely Gaither ; 
child : 



66 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

1 Hannah Gaither Norris. 

2 George Somerville Norris, died young. 

3 Frances Wyatt Norris, married George Howard El- 
der ; children : 

1 George Howard Elder. 

2 Frances Wyatt Elder. 

4 Susan Voss Norris. 

5 Sophia Howard Norris, married John Paul Baker ; 
children : 

1 John Paul Baker. 

2 Bessie Kelso Baker. 

3 Somerville Norris Baker. 

4 Sophia Howard Baker. 

5 Eva Graff Baker. 

6 Katharine Isabella Norris, married Christopher A. 
Wyatt ; children : 

1 Christopher Wyatt. 

2 Katharine Isabella Wyatt. 

7 Richard Horton Norris, married Margery Watson 
Allis ; children : 

1 Richard Horton Norris. 

2 William Allis Norris. 

3 Margaret Allis Norris. 

8 Mary Gordon Norris, married, first, Richard Norris, 
and second, Nathan Ryno Gorter, M. D. 

9 George Somerville Norris, married Gertrude Couthoui ; 
children : 

1 Joseph Couthoui Norris. 

2 Frances Wyatt Norris. 

3 Jessie Norris. 

10 Henry Franklin Norris, married Edith Lockwood; 
child : 

1 Whitton Evans Norris. 

11 Jessie Somerville Norris, married Edward S. Lewis. 

4 Mary Augusta Wyatt, died young. 

5 Katharine Isabella Wyatt, died unmarried. 

6 Charles Handfield Wyatt. 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 67 

7 Christopher Billopp Wyatt, also a clergyman in the 
church, died while rector of St. Peter's Church, West 
Chester, New York. He married Mary Angelica Crogan; 
children : 

1 Frances Billopp Wyatt, married Henry H. Allen; 
children : 

I Wyatt II. Allen. 
2 Harriet Debb Allen. 
S Frances Billopp Allen. 
4* Lucius A. Allen. 

2 William Edward Wyatt, married Jane Kirby; chil- 
dren : 

1 Christopher Billopp Wyatt. 

2 Cornelia Wyatt. 

8 Merritt T. Wyatt. 
8 Christopher A. Wyatt, married Katharine I. Norris, 
died 190(5; children: 

1 Christopher A. Wyatt. 

2 Katharine I. Wyatt. 

4 Mary Livingston Wyatt, married Henry G. Newhall : 
children : 

1 Alice Newhall. 

2 Donald Neuhall. 

3 Lila Newhall. 

8 Edward Winslow Wyatt, married Rosella R. McAllister, 
the daughter of George Washington McAllister, who was 
born in Lancaster Co., Pa., but early settled in Georgia, on 
a plantation ; children : 

1 Rosa McAllister Wyatt. 

2 Edward Winslow Wyatt. 

9 John Henry Wyatt, died young. 

10 Mary Augusta Wyatt, married Daniel Sprigg Hall; chil- 
dren: 

1 William Edward Wyatt Hall, married Ellen Winslow 
Marston ; child : 

1 Francis Winslow Hall. 

2 Anna Hall. 



68 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

3 Francis Billopp Hall. 

4 Daniel Sprigg Hall. 

11 Charles Handfield Wyatt, was a prominent lawyer of 
Baltimore, Md., died in 1904. His first wife was Eliza 
Kreeland, granddaughter of Rev. Dr. McVickar of New 
York ; children : 

1 Lisa Wyatt, married George Peabody Tiffany ; child : 

1 George Peabody Tiffany. 

2 Charles Handfield Wyatt. 

3 John McVickar Wyatt, died in 1891. 

4 Frances Billopp Wyatt. 

Charles Handfield Wyatt's second wife was Marion C. 
Beacham, who bore him one child: 

5 Marion Beacham Wyatt. 

Thomas Farmar 5 Billopp 

Thomas Farmar 5 Billopp, the youngest child of Thomas 
and Abigail Billopp, was born in 1805, was educated by his 
brother-in-law, Rev. Dr. Wyatt, and was ordained a priest 
by Bishop Kemp, of the Diocese of Maryland, in 1825. He 
was at various times rector of churches in Maryland, Dela- 
ware, and New Jersey, and after more than fifty years work, 
while rector of St. Barnabas Church, Prince George County, 
Md., he died in 1876, beloved and revered by all. 

Mr. Holcomb, in his " History of Immanuel Church," New 
Castle, Delaware, says of him: "His disposition and manners 
were exceedingly gentle, and his voice sweet and sympathetic, 
which made him a charming preacher and reader. He resigned 
the rectorship of the parish in 1856. He had many warm 
friends in the congregation who greatly regretted his resig- 
nation." 

He married, in November, 1832, Katharine Risteau, the 
daughter of Captain Christopher Carnan of Baltimore County, 
Md. Captain Carnan was a soldier of the American Army in 
the War of 1812, and was a grandson of Colonel Charles 
Carnan of the Continental Army, who, as a Captain, had raised 




I'm: Reverend Thomas Farmar Billopp 



MAJOR THOMAS BILLOPP 69 

a company in Baltimore County, Md., which was known by the 
unique name of " The Soldier's Delight." Katharine Risteau 
Billopp died in 1892. 

There were born to them seven sons and two daughters. The 
eldest son, Lieutenant Colonel William Wyatt Billopp, was 
born in May, 183-1, was educated at St. Timothy's Military 
Academy, at Catonsville, Md., became a civil engineer, and 
settled in Savannah, Georgia, when about eighteen vears old. 
When the Civil War broke out, he ardently supported the 
Southern Cause, and raised on artillery company of which 
he was elected Captain, During the first two years of the 
war, his company was engaged in the defense of Charleston 
and Savannah, but eventually it became "Company A" of 
tin' 29th (ieorgia Infant rv, and Berved with the army com- 
manded by Generals Johnston, Bragg, and Hood, until the 
end of the war. He was soon promoted to Major and Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, and, as his Colonel was a prisoner in the hands 
of the Union forces during tin- last year of the war, he com- 
manded his regiment. lie was with General Hood when he 
made his ill-advised march into western Tennessee, and partici- 
pated in all the hard-fought battles of that army from Atlanta 
to Franklin, and was more than once severely wounded. At 
Murfrcesboro on the 7th of December, 1864, he was gallantly 
leading his regiment in a charge when a rifle ball pierced his 
forehead, killing him instantly. The charge was repulsed, and 
his men were driven back, but that night some of the men 
of his old company, who were all devoted to him, returned 
to the battlefield, and recovered his body, and buried it with 
military honors. The following is the report of Major General 
William B. Bate, commanding Division of Operations from 
November 21, to December 25, 1864, War of the Rebellion, 
series 1, vol. xlv. part 1, p. 74-7: 

" December 7, ... In this day's fight there were nine- 
teen killed, seventy-three wounded, one hundred and twenty- 
two missing. Among the former was Lieutenant Colonel 
Billopp, commanding the 29th Georgia Regiment, who fell 
gallantly at his post." 



70 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

The writer became acquainted with General Bate, and met 
him frequently during his long service as United States senator 
from Tennessee. He was a personal friend and admirer of 
Colonel Billopp, and spoke of him as a most gallant, brave, and 
conscientious officer, who, if his life and the war had lasted 
longer, would soon have met rapid promotion. General Bate 
was present at his burial, and thirty years after the end of 
the war, said he believed he could point out the place where 
his body was buried by his loving comrades. 

Colonel Billopp was in his thirty-first year when he met 
his death. He had not married. 

Christopher 6 Billopp become a civil engineer. He was for 
a number of years Engineer Commissioner of Baltimore City, 
and has successfully accomplished several difficult works for 
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. When 
the Cival War broke out, he joined the First Maryland Cav- 
alry, C. S. A., and served through the war under his former 
schoolmate, General Fitzhugh Lee. He has not married. 

Major Thomas Farmar 6 Billopp, when the Civil War was 
began, was in business in Clarkesville, Tenn. He immediately 
volunteered and served as a private in a Tennessee regiment. 
During the first year of the war, he was under Stonewall Jack- 
son in Virginia, and was severely wounded in one of the battles 
before Richmond, when McClellan's attempt to capture that 
city was defeated. After his recovery he was transferred to 
the company of artillery commanded by his brother, with which 
he remained until the surrender, under Johnson, in 1865, at 
which time he was Major and commanded the regiment. Dur- 
ing the war he saw severe fighting, and was seriously wounded 
many times. Immediately after the close of the war he en- 
gaged in business in Baltimore. He married Anna Holliday 
of Baltimore, but left no children. He died July, 1891. 

Robert Carnan Billopp married Virginia Magruder. They 
had one son, Archibald, who married Margaret Ella Shaw 
of Prince George Co., Md. They have one son, whose name 
is Thomas Farmar Billopp. 

Francis Wyatt Billopp died at St. James College, Md., July, 
1858. 



MAJOR THOMAS UILLOPP -71 

John Sappington Billopp, unmarried. 

The last three children of Thomas Farmar* Billopp were 
born *hile he was rector of Ennnanuel Church in Newcastle, 
™"~* *** Church bore a particular interest, inasmuch 
as it occupied he identical spot on which formerly stood the 
fort commanded by his ancestor, Captain Christopher Billopp, 
nearly two hundred years before. 

Charles Farmar Billopp was horn March 11, 1846 He 
married Mary Blake, daughter of Samuel L. Brooke of Prince 
George County Maryland. They had three daughters, Elinor, 
Lisa Brooke, *ho married Raymond Healy of Brooklyn N Y 
and Katharine Risteau. He died on February 14," 1907 in 
Washington, I). C, *here he had lived for the last twenty 
years oi his life. J 

Katharine Carnan Billopp, the first daughter of Thomas 
Farmar and Katharine (Carnan) Billopp, married William 
Berry of Prince George Co., Maryland. Their one son, Wil- 
nam, died in infancy. 

Mary Elinor Billopp married George W. Brooke of Mary- 
land, in 1875. She died in 1876, leaving no children. 




Major Robert Farmah 
From a Painting now m the Possession of Mr. George Brooke 
of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania 



VI 
MAJOR ROBERT 1 FABMAR WD DESCENDANTS 



VI 

MAJOR ROBERT 8 FARMAR AND DESCENDANTS 

Ma.iok ROBERT Eakmar 

ROBERT, the sixth son of Thomas and Anno Billopp 
Farmar, named in honor of Robert, the founder 
j of our branch of the family, he who " was an officer of 
rank in Queen Elizabeth's Army, in Ireland," and 
was "slain in battle," was born in 1717, and had a liberal 
education. His name does not appear in any of the records 
of his time until the year 1740, when at the age of twenty- 
three years he raised a full company of soldiers, of one hundred 
and three men, u as appointed captain, and sailed with them to 
join the English Army, commanded by General Wentworth 
in the West Indies. It is at this time his name is frequently 
found in the " Papers of Governor Lewis Morris," of New 
Jersey. 

Governor Morris had the disposal of two captain's com- 
missions, while there were three applicants for these prizes, who 
were under the impression that the rule of " first come, first 
served," would decide their fate, so the rivals each strove to 
secure the first full company. Rut there were other influences 
which weighed with the Governor, who was a shrewd politician, 
and about as scrupulous as politicians generally were in those 
days, and are in these. For, though Farmar, with the aid 
of his brother Jasper in New York, and his brother Thomas 
Billopp on Staten Island, was the first to secure his full quota, 
he received no commission, but had to content himself with a 
" certificate " from the Governor, which did not give him a 
captain's rank in the regular army. But Farmar did not, as 
Governor Morris said he feared he would, " sulk in his tent " 
— he was not made of that sort of stuff. Though disappointed, 

75 



76 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

he stuck his certificate in his pocket, sailed to the Indies, and 
soon won his spurs at the point of his sword. 

The Governor's letters at this time frequently mention Far- 
mar. Before the companies are filled he shows his prejudice 
by speaking of him as " a vain young man," but after Far- 
mer's rivals have secured the commissions he turns about and 
sounds his praises. He urges Captain Thomas to greater 
energy by telling him " Captain Farmar has a full company." 
On page 102 of the " Papers " there is a letter to Colonel 
Blakeney, commanding Farmar's regiment. It is dated Sep- 
tember 30, 1740, and he says, " Captain Farmar is very dili- 
gent and careful." In a letter to the Duke of Newcastle, he 
mentions the departure of Captain Farmar's company to the 
West Indies, and explains the matter of the certificate, which 
he carries in the place of a commission. 

On page 148 of " Papers of Governor Lewis Morris " is 
a letter to General Wentworth, in which the Governor speaks 
very flatteringly of Captain Farmar, and mentions his father, 
Thomas Farmar, as the member of the New Jersey Assembly 
who did most to raise two thousand pounds and equip three 
companies for service in the West Indies. 

The next time his name is found is in the Boston Weekly 
News Letter, of July 2, 1741, in the following report of mili- 
tary affairs : " Admiral Vernon, with his fleet, and General 
Wentworth, with his Land Forces, have left off the siege of 
Carthagena, on account of great sickness and death among 
his men, and are arrived at Jamaica. They have lost in all 
about 8,000 men. Captain Stevens and Captain Cosby of New 
York are both very well, as also Captain Farmar and Captain 
Thomas of New Jersey. The officers and soldiers of North 
America behaved themselves with much Bravery, but many of 
them are dead." So we see that Robert Farmar has secured 
his commission as captain. 

On page 157 is a letter, dated December 19, 1742, from 
the Governor to Henry Pelham, Paymaster General, which 
mentions that Captain Farmar had been sent home by General 
Wentworth to raise recruits, and had forwarded to the West 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 77 

Indies twenty-two men. In a note on page 816, vol. viii. of 
" Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York," 
the editor says : " Robert Farmar was a captain in the army 
as early as 1740, and obtained a company in the 19th Foot, in 
1744. In 1761 he became a major in the 34th, and commanded 
that regiment the following year in the expedition against 
Havana" (Beatson, iii. p. 395). Havana capitulated August 
13, 1762, after a siege of two months and eight days. 

By the Treaty of Paris, in February, 1763, all of that part 
of the United States east of the Mississippi River, now com- 
prising the states of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, was 
ceded by France to England. The town of Mobile and the 
French fort called Conde were surrendered October 20, 1763, 
The transfer \va> >igned by Devalle and Fazende, on the part 
of France, and by Major Robert Farmar for England, fol- 
lowed by Farmar's proclamation. 

The historic name of Fort Conde was changed to Fort Char- 
lotte, in honor of the young Queen of George the Third. 

I am indebted to " Colonial Mobile," an intensely interest- 
ing history of the early days of Florida, from the pen of Peter 
J. Hamilton, Esq., for nearly all the information I have re- 
ceived relating to Major Robert Farmar. 

He was in command of Mobile for a number of years, in 
fact as long as he remained in the army. During that time 
he commanded an expedition to the Illinois country opposite 
St. Louis, and relieved Captain Sterling. He was compelled 
to accommodate himself to the French-Indian policy, and keep 
open house for twenty or thirty people every day — " a vile 
custom," he declares. Hamilton says, " He was an interesting 
character. He had frequent occasion to correspond officially 
with Aubrey, the French Governor of New Orleans, and we 
have Aubrey's impression of him in a dispatch to his home 
government." It is found in Gayarre's " History of Louis- 
iana," vol. ii. p. 125: 

" The correspondence which I am obliged to have with the 
English, who write to me from all parts, and particularly with 



78 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

the Governor of Mobile, gives me serious occupation. This 
Governor is an extraordinary man. As he knows that I speak 
English, he occasionally writes to me in verse. He speaks to 
me of Francis I. and Charles V. He compares Pontiak, an 
Indian Chief, to Mithridates ; he says that he goes to bed 
with Montesquieu. When there occur some petty difficulties 
between the inhabitants of New Orleans and Mobile, he quotes 
to me from the Magna Charta, and the laws of Great Brittain. 
It is said that the English ministry sent him to Mobile to get 
rid of him ( !) because he was one of the hottest in the oppo- 
sition. He pays me handsome compliments, which I duly re- 
turn him, and upon the whole he is a man of parts, but a 
dangerous neighbor, against whom it is well to be on one's 
guard." 

The Major acquired from the Indians a piece of land fac- 
ing the Bay, and extending over towards Pensacola (men- 
tioned in his son Robert's letter as containing upwards of 
200,000 acres), and from the Government at some time, Far- 
mar's Island, and his residence at what is now the northeast 
corner of Government and St. Emanuel Streets, which was 
his home until he moved over to the Tensaw River. In 1766, 
through the enmity of Governor Johnstone, which Farmar 
had incurred by opposing his claim to be Commander in Chief 
of all the land forces in America, charges were preferred 
against the Major, and a court martial was ordered. He had 
handled, in the two years in question, over fifteen thousand 
pounds. He had very voluminous accounts, but nothing in- 
criminating was found. One of the charges was, " For em- 
ploying the King's boat to his own emolument." This was 
proved to be the Major's own boat which he, in affectionate 
pleasantry, had named after his son, calling it " The Little 
Bob." 

The trial lasted several years, and the dispute between civil 
and military departments, meantime, fills volumes of British 
records, with complaints and counter charges. It was con- 
cluded in August, in 1768, and the papers submitted to the 
King. The General in Chief, in notifying Farmar, remarked 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 79 

that he could say nothing until the result was known. In 
October the news came that his Majesty approved of the court- 
martial, acquitting the Major. " We can readily imagine," 
writes Mr. Hamilton, who has a very soft spot in his heart 
for the Major, " We can readily imagine the joy of the whole 
southern detachment, at this victory over Governor Johnstone." 

The Major seems at the time of his trial to have withdrawn 
from active service, though he did not resign from the arm}' 
until after his acquittal, as his name appears in the Armv 
List for 1768. In 17(i!) we find him recommended to succeed 
Browne as Governor of Florida. 

Even af't.r his retirement. Major Farmar was in frequent 
demand for information a^ to Mobile matters from those high- 
est in authority. He lived for ten years after his acquittal, 
residing at his plantation on the Tensaw. He was several 
times elected to the Florida Assembly. It was at the Tensaw 
that the famous naturalist, William Bartram, visited him. 
Bartram says, in his "Travels," page 402: "On August 5, 
went in a trading boat to visit Major Farmar, that worthy 
gentleman having invited me." 

Robert Farmar was member of the Assembly from the year 
1772 to 1777, and it is stated of the Assembly of 1778 that 
"Peter Swann was elected in the room of Robert Farmar, de- 
ceased." As he had been appointed by Governor Chester to 
be one of the Commissioners of tin Peace for the town of 
Mobile, in 1777, it is probable that he died in the early part 
of 1778. 

On the fourteenth of March, 1780, the town of Mobile was 
surrendered to the Spanish under the command of Don Ber- 
nardo de Galvez. During the siege, which lasted for nearly 
a month, many of the houses in the vicinity of Fort Charlotte 
were burned, among them being the late home of Major Far- 
mar, which contained, with other things, many valuable and 
interesting papers. Some of the latter, no doubt, would have 
been most useful to the writer of this chronicle, as he would 
then know more of the doings of the doughty Major. 

There is a footnote on page 382 of " Colonial Mobile," which 



80 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

reads : " Mrs. Curtis Lewis was a granddaughter of Sir Rob- 
ert Farmar; she was a daughter of De Vaubercey of Dauphine 
Island." This is the only intimation that the writer has found 
of the Major's being knighted. 

The year of Major Farmar's marriage is uncertain, but it 
must have been rather late in his life, for at the time of his 
death his children were all quite young. He married Mary 
Anderson of Yorkshire, England, and had two sons and three 
daughters. The first child was a daughter named Anne Billopp, 
who married John Lewis Barde, an officer in the English Army, 
who eventually settled, lived, and died at Birdsboro, Pennsyl- 
vania. The second was a son, Robert Adolphus, an officer for 
a time of the 60th Foot, of the English Army. The third, 
a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married John Louis De Vaubercey, 
of Orleanist connection (see "Colonial Mobile"), and re- 
mained in Florida. They had at least one son, Louis Le Gras 
De Vaubercey, and one daughter, who married Mr. Curtis 
Lewis of Mobile. 

The fourth child, a daughter, Katharine Louisa, married 
Otto Vautile Barbaree. The fifth was a son, named for his 
Grandfather Thomas. He died at sea, unmarried. 

The descendants of the Major's daughter, Mary Elizabeth, 
who married De Vaubercey, lived in Mobile as late as 1839, and 
at that time petitioned Congress to confirm to them as the 
heirs of Major Farmar, the title to " Farmar's Island," and a 
bill was introduced in the Twenty-fourth Congress to that effect, 
and became a law on the last day of the Twenty-fifth Congress. 
The reports on these bills are to be found in vol. ii. of the 
Twenty-fourth Congress, report No. 352, and in vol. i. of the 
Twenty-fifth Congress, report No. 139. These reports are 
identical, and are made by Mr. Lawler, from the Committee 
on Private Land Claims. Among other things, they state that 
Robert Farmar, the ancestor of the petitioners, occupied it in 
his lifetime, as a boatyard, and that he resided in Mobile until 
his death, which happened sometime in or about the year 
1781. That the right heirs of the said Robert Farmar were 
all born in America, and that the said Louis Le Gras De 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 81 

Vaubcrccy did reside in the town of Mobile on the 15th day 
of April, 1813, when the United States took possession of that 
part of west Florida, and that he has resided in the same place, 
or vicinity, ever since, and still resides there. They also recite 
an affidavit of Curtis Lewis to the same effect. 

The statute is found in " United States Statutes at Large," 
vol. vi. p. 761, chap. 105: An "Act for the Relief of the 
Heirs and Legal Representatives of the Late Robert Farmar, 
Deceased." " Be it enacted, etc., that the heirs and legal rep- 
resentatives of the late Robert Farmar, deceased, be, and they 
hereby are, confirmed in their title to a certain tract of Land, 
commonly called the Island ; bounded on the north by the 
Bayou Chataque, on the south by the Bayou Marmott, on the 
east by the River Mobile, and on the wrest by the said Bayou, 
situate about a mile above, or north of the city of Mobile, in 
the state of Alabama, and containing 400 acres, more or less, 
and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby 
authorized to issue a patent to the said heirs, agreeable to their 
petition. Approved March 3, 1839." 

While the descendants of Mary Elizabeth may have re- 
ceived their patents, the writer has never been informed that 
the descendants of any of Robert Farmar's other children have 
ever been benefited by this Act. 

After the fall of Mobile, the English troops and their fam- 
ilies went to Pensacola. The 60th. or Royal American Regi- 
ment of Foot, was a portion of this small army. There were 
also with it several companies of Pennsylvania Loyalists. John 
Lewis Barde (though the English Army List calls him Lewis 
Barde) had been appointed an ensign in the 60th Foot, the 
29th of June, 1776, and was raised to a lieutenancy September 
2, 1779. It is probable that Major Robert Farmar's family 
accompanied the army to Pensacola, for the Army List informs 
us that Robert Adolphus Farmar (the son of Major Farmar) 
was appointed an ensign in the 60th Foot, January 8, 1781. 
He became a lieutenant September 25, 1787, and remained in 
the army until 1790. 

General Galvez was not content with the capture of Mobile, 



82 THOMAS AND ANNE BII/LOPP FARMAB 

but in March of the following year, 1781, he lay siege to 
Pensacola. The writer has in his possession a copy of a very 
valuable and interesting journal of the siege of Pensacola, 
written by Ensign Farmar, and handed down by his descend- 
ants to the present generation, but, as this story is not in- 
tended as a general history, he forbears to quote it in full. 
It, however, tells the story of the siege and surrender very 
lucidly, and at the close informs us that the English sailed in 
the Spanish transports, first to Havana, and from there to 
New York. It is to be presumed that the families of the sol- 
diers went with them. They arrived in New York the latter 
part of July, 1781. 

Lieutenant Barde, husband of Anne Billopp Farmar, re- 
signed from the English Army at the close of the American 
Revolution, and settled at Birdsboro, in Pennsylvania. What 
led him to take this step is to a considerable extent conjecture. 
As has been mentioned, there was a large contingent of Penn- 
sylvania troops employed in the defense of Mobile, who had 
been stationed there sometime previous to the siege, and re- 
mained with the army and took part in the defense of Pensa- 
cola in the following year. As Mr. Farmar frequently men- 
tions them in his journal, and as, after the fall of the latter 
place, these Pennsylvanians, with the other troops, including 
the 60th Foot, in which Mr. Barde and Mr. Farmar were 
officers, sailed to New York in the Transports, the writer be- 
lieves the most reasonable explanation of Mr. Barde's move- 
ments is that he and his wife, Anne Billopp, the daughter of 
the late Major Farmar, who were strangers in the city of 
New York, had in the common reverses and misfortunes of the 
war, formed intimacies and friendships with some of the Penn- 
sylvania Loyalists, and, at the close of hostilities, they were 
persuaded by these friends to go with them to their old home, 
which was still a new country, in Pennsylvania. Be the cause 
what it may, there is where they went, and some of their 
descendants are there at the present day to prove it. 

As for the Major's widow, Mary Anderson, of Yorkshire, 
England, it is said she refused to live where the English flag 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 83 

did not wave, and so returned to England, and there 
died. 

Descendants of Anne Billopp 3 Farmar 

Anne Billopp, the eldest child of Major Robert Farmar, 
married John Lewis (or Louis) Barde, April 16th, 1780; had 
three sons and four daughters: 

1 Robert George Barde, unmarried, died in Mobile, in 1840. 

2 Samuel Barde, married Anna Davis, and had five children: 

1 Anne Billopp Barde, married Nathan Evans, and had 
six children : 

1 Louisa Brooke Evans. 

2 George Evans, married Annie Shoemaker, and 
had three children : 

1 Louisa Evans, 

2 George Evans. 

3 Horace Barde Evans. 

3 Charles Brooke Evans. 

4 Mary Evans, married Lewis Garrigues, and had 
two children : 

1 Emily Garrigues, married William Lincoln. 

2 Edward Garrigues. 

5 Clement Brooke Evans, married Elizabeth Cham- 
bers, and had three children: 

1 Frank Evans, married Harriet Spotts. 

2 Howell Evans. 

3 Gertrude Evans, married William Short. 

6 Anne Sheafe Evans. 

2 Jared Barde. 

3 Ellen Barde. 

4 Eliza Barde. 

5 Jane Brooke Barde, married John Martin, and had 
six children: 

1 Mary Martin, married William Eachus, and had 
six children : 

1 William Eachus, married Mary Shalcross, 
and had two children : 



84 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAB 

1 Charles Eachus. 

2 Harrold Eachus. 

2 Jennie Eachus. 

3 Charles Eachus. 

4 Louisa Eachus. 

5 Marion Eachus, married Walter Greenwood; 
children : 

1 Walter Edward Greenwood. 

2 Richard Fleming Greenwood. 

6 Thomas Norman Eachus. 

2 Louisa Brooke Martin. 

3 Henry Clay Martin, married Louisa McCorkle, 
and had one child: 

1 Eliza Barde Martin. 

4 John Locke Martin, married Ella Gause, and had 
three daughters : 

1 Gillie Ogden Martin. 

2 Jessie Martin, married John McCulloch. 

3 Helen Martin. 

5 Helen Martin, married Thomas Eachus, and had 
one child : 

1 Edith Eachus. 

6 Jane Barde Martin. 
3 Mary Barde, died, unmarried. 

4< Elizabeth Barde, married Matthew Brooke, and had five 
children : 

1 Anne Farmar Brooke, died unmarried. 

2 Sarah Reese Brooke, died unmarried. 

3 Edward Brooke, married Anne Clymer, and had four 
children : 

1 Anne Brooke, married Blair Lee of Washington, 
D. C, and had three children: 

1 Brooke Lee. 

2 Blair Lee. 

3 Arthur Lee, died young. 

2 Robert Edward Brooke, married Cornelia Ewing, 
had three children : 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 85 

1 Robert Clymer Brooke. 

2 Maskell Ewing Brooke. 

3 John Louis Barde Brooke. 

George Clymer Brooke, married Rhoda Morris, 
and had two children: 

1 Rhoda Brooke. 

2 George Clymer Brooke. 
4 Frederick Brooke. 

4 George Brooke, married Mary Baldwin Irwin, and had 
two children : 

1 Edward Rrooke, married Louisa Clingan, a de- 
scendant of the first Jasper Farmar's youngest 
son, Edward. They had four children: 

1 George Brooke. 

2 Edward Brooke. 

3 Mary Brooke 

4- Charles Brooke. 

2 George Brooke. 

5 Elizabeth Mary Brooke, married Heister Clymer, and 
had two children : 

1 Elizabeth Clymer, died young. 

2 Edward Clymer, died young. 

5 Jane Barde, married Charles Brooke of Hibernia Iron 
Works, Chester Co., Pa. This gentleman was born at 
Brooke Manor, on the Schuylkill River, near Pottstown, a 
tract of land purchased from William Penn, by his grand- 
father, John Brooke, a younger son of the famous family 
of that name of Yorkshire, England. He, with his wife 
and two sons, arrived in America in 1699. Charles Brooke, 
early in life, purchased a tract of some thousand acres 
of land in Chester Co., where he started the well-known 
Hibernia Iron Works, in which he was very successful. 
He was a man of much influence in his State. He died 
July 17, 1866. They had nine children: 

1 Mary Brooke, married Clement Brooke Grubb, who 
was a representative of the fifth generation of his 
family in this country, a son of Harriet Buckley and 



86 THOMAS AND ANNE BII/LOPP FARMAE 

Henry Bates Grubb. He was born at his parental 
homestead, Mount Hope, on February 9, 1815, and 
died at his Lancaster residence October 31, 1899. 
Mr. Grubb was a prominent iron master, owning Mount 
Hope, Mount Vernon, Manada, and Codorus char- 
coal furnaces ; also "St. Charles and Henry Clay an- 
thracite furnaces. He was also an owner of the 
Chestnut Hill and Cornwell ore mines. He was an 
active business man, with the rare faculty of perfect 
sympathy with those in his employ, and was admired 
and beloved to a degree enjoyed by few. He was one 
of the first members of the Union League Club of 
Philadelphia, a Republican in politics, and a vestry- 
man in St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Lan- 
caster, Pa. Their five children were: 

1 Harriet Brooke Grubb, married Stephen B. Ir- 
win, and had two children: 

1 Stephen Irwin, died young. 

2 John Heister Irwin. 

2 Charles Brooke Grubb. 

3 Mary Lilly Brooke Grubb, married Joseph Bond 
Bcall of New York City, formerly of Georgia. 
He served for three years in the Civil War, a 
Captain of Company A, in the 27th Georgia Bat- 
talion Heavy Artillery, Army of Tennessee, com- 
manded by General Joseph E. Johnston ; children: 

1 Maria Sanford Beall, died young. 

2 Mary Lilly Beall. 

3 Ella Josephine Beall, died young. 

4 Ethel Grubb Beall, married George Tucker 
Smith, Surgeon U. S. Navy, died March 10, 
1903, leaving a son: 

1 George Tucker Smith Jr. 

5 Florence Beall. 

4 Ella Jane Grubb, married Colonel L. Heber Smith. 
This gentleman was a great-grandson of Robert 
Smith, a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army, who 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 87 

Berved under Washington. Colonel L. Heber 
Smith was born at Joanna Furnace, Berks County, 
Pa. He was engaged in the iron manufacturing 
business with his father and brothers at Joanna 
Furnace, which furnace had been in the continual 
possession of his family since its establishment 
in 1793. In the early part of the Civil War he was 
mustered into the United States Army, as captain 
of Company A, 128th Regiment of Pennsylvania 
Infantry, and participated in the battles of South 
Mountain and Antietam. At the battle of Staf- 
ford Court House he was promoted to be Colonel 
of his regiment. At the battle of Chancellors- 
ville, May 2, 1863, through the blunder of a 
superior officer, he was captured by the Confed- 
erates and sent to Libby Prison, in Richmond, 
but was shortly afterward exchanged. His 
sword, which had been presented to him by his 
Company upon his promotion to the command of 
the Regiment, was taken from him, at the time of 
his capture, but his Regiment presented him with 
another upon his return. He was a gallant and 
brave soldier, popular alike with his command and 
his ranking officers. After the close of the war he 
returned to his home and business at Joanna 
Furnace. He was frequently tendered a promi- 
nent share of the honors of his political party 
in his State, but his controlling preference was 
for the unostentatious sphere of business duties 
and the modest discharge of private obligations. 
He eventually acquired the sole ownership of 
Joanna Furnace property, and enlarged the 
works, and greatly improved his ancestral home, 
where he died August 5, 1898, leaving six chil- 
dren: 

1 Clement Grubb Smith, married Edith Watts 
Comstock, and has one child: 



88 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

1 Julia Comstock Smith. 

2 Heber L. Smith, married Nellie Oliver Baer. 

3 Mary Grubb Smith. 

4 Daisy Emily Smith, married William S. 
Morris ; they have one son : 

1 Heber Smith Morris. 

5 Stanley McDonald Smith. 

6 William Howard Smith. 

5 Daisy Elizabeth Brooke Grubb. 

2 Louisa Catherine Brooke, married Cadwalader Wick- 
ersham, and had four children : 

1 Alice Morris Wickersham, married John Miller 
Zinn, and had two children : 

1 George Cadwalader Zinn, died young. 

2 Maurice Collins Zinn, married Julia Murray, 
and has one child : 

1 Alice Wickersham Zinn. 

2 Josephine Mary Wickersham, died young. 

3 Paul Goddard Wickersham, married Annette 

Josephine Wilson. 

4 Helen Billopp Wickersham. 

3 Elizabeth Barde Brooke. 

4> Jane Barde Brooke, married Nathaniel Burt. Mr. 
Burt was born in Philadelphia, 1823, was the son 
of Nathaniel Burt of Scotch-Irish descent, of Belfast, 
Ireland, who left that country during a period of 
troubles with England. He came to America and 
settled in Philadelphia, where he engaged in large com- 
mercial interests, being one of the first to establish 
trading posts in the West. He married Mary Leh- 
man, whose ancestors were prominent people in Sax- 
ony, and came to America with Count Zinzendorf; 
were among the early settlers of Germantown. Na- 
thaniel, his son, was a graduate of Princeton College, 
afterward graduated at law, but did not practice. 
Mr. Burt took an active interest in the Pennsylvania 
Historical Society, also in many charitable organiza- 



MAJOR ROBERT FAEMAR 89 

tions. He was one of the early members of the Phila- 
delphia Club. After his marriage he settled at Water- 
loo Farm, a large estate he owned in Lancaster County. 
He died in Philadelphia, January 23, 1893. They had 
nine children : 

1 Nathaniel Burt, died young. 

2 Charles Brooke Burt, died young. 

3 Alice Burt, died young. 

4 Arthur Burt, married Ella Plank, and has six 
children : 

1 Nathaniel Burt. 

2 Mary Burt. 

3 Arthur Armstrong Burt. 

4 Alfred Farmar Brooke Burt. 

5 Alice Burt. 

6 Eliza Lehman Burt. 

5 Horace Brooke Burt, married Hester Jones; he 
died 1890, leaving four children: 

1 Alice Burt, married Henry Drinker Riley, 

and has two children : 

1 Jean Brooke Riley. 

2 Lewis Alsop Riley. 

2 Horace Brooke Burt, died young. 

3 Maxwell Struthcrs Burt. 

4 Nathaniel Burt, died young. 

5 Jean Brooke Burt. 

6 Jean Barde Burt, died in Paris, France, June, 
1894. 

7 Mary Theodora Burt. 

8 Alfred Farmar Burt, died 1893. 

9 Edith Brooke Burt. 

Thomas Reese Brooke, married Harriet Phelps, died 
six months after his marriage; there was one son: 
1 Thomas Reese Brooke, married Elizabeth Dodge ; 
child : 

1 Helen Brooke. 
Charles Edward Brooke. 



90 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 

7 Horace Louis Brooke, married Gay Williams, and had 
four children: 

1 Horace Louis Brooke. 

2 Dandridge Williams Brooke, married Augusta 
Schaff er, and had one child : 

1 Gay Brooke. 
S Christine Gay Brooke. 
4 Charles Grubb Brooke. 

8 Henry Clay Brooke, was an officer in the 11th Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry in the Civil War. Died in Belief ont, 
Pa., December 8, 1880, unmarried. 

9 Helen Theresa Brooke, married Thomas Harrison 
White, a great-grandson of the Rt. Rev. Wm. White, 
D. D., the first bishop consecrated by the English 
Church for the Church in America. 

6 Anne Billopp Barde, married Reese Evans, and had six 
children : 

1 Eliza Brooke Evans. 

% Anne Reese Evans, married Francis T. Fassitt, and 
had one child: 

1 Anne Fassitt, died young. 

3 Charles Brooke Evans, died young. 

4 John Evans, died young. 

5 Edward Brooke Evans. 

6 Sarah Evans. 

7 John Lewis Barde, married Sarah Neiman, and had two 
children : 

1 Elizabeth Brooke Barde, died 1907. 

2 Robert Barde, died young. 

ROBEET ADOLPHUS 3 FaRMAE 

Robert Adolphus, son of Major Robert Farmar, was ap- 
pointed Ensign in the 60th Regiment of Foot, or " Royal 
Americans," on the 8th of January, 1781. He was made Lieu- 
tenant September 25, 1787 ; retired from the English Army in 
1789. He took part in the defense of Pensacola, and kept a 
diary of the incidents of the siege, which will be very interest- 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 91 

ing to the historian. In the diary he states that, after the 
capture of Pensacola by the Spaniards, under General Galvez, 
his regiment sailed to New York, arriving there in July, 1781. 

After he left the army he settled in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, 
in the neighborhood of his sister, Mrs. Barde. The Penn- 
sylvania Archives mentions his marriage on March 25, 1792, 
at St. James Episcopal Church, commonly called " The Perkio- 
men Church," to Margaret, the daughter of Judge John Paw- 
ling of Providence Township, Montgomery County. 

On page 372 of the Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. 
wiii., is found the following letter addressed to the State 
Land Commissioners: 

" Providence Township, Montgomery Co., 

" 11 June, 1804. 

" Gentlemen : 

" Agreeable to Mr. Taylor's request that I should note par- 
ticulars respecting the money arising from the Wyalusing 
tract, I have promised it to my son-in-law, Robert A. Farmar, 
to enable him to go to Louisiana to prosecute his claims for 
his Lands in that country, as the commissioners have now met 
there and the time is limited for the Claimants to prove their 
title to 10th September. So, therefore, Gentlemen, if you 
could facilitate the certificate, and send me p r post, it would 
be conferring a great favor, and rendering an Essential 
Service. 

" I remain with great 

" Respect & Esteem, 

" Gentlemen, 
" Your Most ob\ H bl . Sev't. 

" John Pawling. 

" Thomas Cooper, and 
" John M. Taylor, Esq r 



,™ >> 



On page 379, same volume, is the following letter to the 
same commissioners: 



92 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 



" Birdsboro, Berks County, 
" 14 June, 1804. 



"Sir: 

" Inclosed is a letter from my worthy Friend Gen 1 . Nichols, 
as I have not the honor of your Acquaintance, he was kind 
enough to be my Advocate, that I might be enabled through 
your means to recover my Birthright, which was taken from us 
by the Spaniards, in 1781. 

" I perceive by the Newspapers, that the Commissioners 
have met at the Natchez and Mobile, and the time will expire 
by the 16th Sept r for the Landholders to lay in their claims, 
so you will conceive, Sir, how necessary it is for me to be in 
that country by that time, Where my family has upward of 
two hundred thousand Acres of Land, part of which we have 
settled and made considerable improvements on, before it fell 
to the Arms of Spain. 

" Mr. Pawling, my Father-in-law, has given me the Money 
come from the Commonwealth for the lands he holds in Wyalus- 
ing, have therefore to beg that you will be pleased to send the 
Certificate either to him or Me ; he has wrote a few Days ago, 
by Mr. Stalford respecting the Business. 

" Do, Sir, let me entreat you to be expeditious, as it will 
be the means of saving a large family from want ; 

" Relying therefore on your Goodness, 
" I subscribe myself, 
" With Esteem and regard, 
" Your mo. obt. Hble. Servt. 

" Robt. A. Farmar." 

On which is written the following note: 

" July 27, 1804, answered that John & H. Pawling alone, or 
their Assignees are entitled to receive the Certificate." 

But Robert, perceiving the dilatory ways of these commis- 
sioners, and the ultimate day fast approaching, writes again. 
On page 383 we find this letter: 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 93 

" Lancaster, 10th September, 1804. 
" G\ n'ii.imkn : 

" Compelled by necessity to Address you again, must intreat 
that you will be good enough to forward the Certificate for 
Mr. Pawling's Land, as I am full empowered to receive the 
need (net?) proceeds, have Shew my power to Mr. Ellicott, 
who is satisfied with it, and told me I should not be detained 
a minute if he had the Certificate; remember, Gentlemen, your 
promise to me a month ago that you would forward it immedi- 
ately, relying fully upon y r goodness, 

" I subscribe myself 
" With perfect Esteem and Respect, 

" Gentlemen, 
" Your most ob\ humble Servant, 

" Robert A. ffarmar." 

The poor fellow probably did not receive his certificate in 
time, for a few years later the family traditions assert: — " He, 
in a final attempt to perfect his title to the ' two hundred 
thousand acres,' sailed for England, and was lost at sea, the 
vessel never being heard of after she left port." 

Descendants of Robert Adolphus 8 Farmar 

Lieutenant Robert Adolphus Farmar and Margaret, his 
wife, had several children. There is mention of one son, Rob- 
ert, who grew to manhood, and probably married, for Mrs. 
King's mother frequently spoke of her " Uncle Robert Far- 
mar," and her " Cousin Robert Farmar." But the writer can 
find out nothing more in regard to them. 

The only children of Robert Adolphus Farmar of record 
are two daughters, Anne Billopp, and Margaretta, whose de- 
scendants are shown as follows : 

I. Anne Billopp Farmar, daughter of Lieutenant Robert 

Adolphus and Margaret Pawling Farmar, born July 30, 1800, 

married Daniel Rife Brower, January 1, 1819. 

1 Rachel Pawling Brower, born November 13, 1819, married 

Cadwallader Evans, February 1, 1842. This estimable lady 



94 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FA1MAE 

was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, gathering 
hospital stores in Montgomery, Berkes, Lehigh, and North- 
ampton Counties, Penn., and taking them to the front after 
the battles of Bull Run and Antietam, remaining there six 
weeks and living in a tent, returning only on account of an 
attack of camp fever. On her recovery she returned to her 
work of love. She was appointed commissioner for Mont- 
gomery Co., Penn., to the United States Centennial Expo- 
sition, in 1876, was active in all good works in alms- 
houses, jails, and other public institutions, and best of all, 
the sweet halo of her memory still lingers in her old home, 
Bridgeport, Penna., where she died in 1902. Her children 
were : 

1 Margaretta Pawling Evans, married Thomas H. Wil- 
son ; child : 

1 Franklin Evans Wilson, married Alice V. Babcock ; 
children: 

1 Mildred Wilson. 

2 Dorothy Wilson. 

3 David Wilson. 

2 George Jones Evans, officer 138th Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers, in the Civil War, married Sophia Bradbury; 
children: 

1 Alice Vivian Evans, married Harry Runacres, 
children : 

1 Dorothy Runacres. 

2 Alice Runacres. 

3 Harry Runacres. 

4 Helen Runacres. 

2 Rachel Edna Evans. 

3 Blanch M. Evans. 

3 Charles Brower Evans, served in Penna. Volunteers 
during the Civil War, died 1903. 

4 Cadwallader Evans, died 1864. 

5 William Penn Evans. Mr. Evans has kindly con- 
tributed this history of the descendants of Anne Bill- 
opp Brower. He is a mechanical engineer, the North- 






MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 95 

western representative of the Baldwin Locomotive 
Works. He married Anne Mary Idell; child: 
1 Donald Evans, with Philadelphia Inquirer. 
6 Anne Brower Evans, died in infancy. 

2 Margaretta Farmar Brower, born 1823, drowned in Talla- 
hoochee River, Alabama, in 1837. 

3 Mary Louisa Brower, married Oscar Carter; children: 

1 Oscar Charles Sumner Carter, married Nellie Martin. 

2 Mary Louisa Carter, married Peter V. Hoy. 

3 Josephine Carter. 

4 Abby Anne Turner Brower, married Dr. George W. Hol- 
stein ; children : 

1 Charles Holstein. 

2 Ella Holstein, married William W. Potts, children: 

1 Elizabeth Holstein Potts, married John D. Paist. 

2 Helen Rutter Potts. 

3 Carrie C. Potts. 

4 Ella Holstein Potts. 

3 George Meade Holstein, married Sarah C. Highly; 

children : 

1 Abby von Holstein. 

2 George Meade von Holstein, Jr. 

3 Anne H. von Holstein. 

5 Ella Jane Brower. 

6 Frances Rife Brower. 

7 Noah Billopp Brower, married Christine Meeh. 

8 Laura Brower. 

9 Daniel Roberts Brower, M. D., married Eliza Shearer. Dr. 
Brower is one of Chicago's prominent physicians. During 
the Civil War, he was a surgeon in the United States Army. 
He is the author of many valuable works on nervous dis- 
eases. Children : 

1 Unis Anne Brower. 

2 Daniel Roberts Brower, Jr., M. D., married Olive Mc- 
Gill. 

10 James Farmar Brower, married Elizabeth Kelly; children: 
1 Anne Billopp Brower, married Drew. 



96 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAB 

2 Earl Brower. 

3 Robert Farmar Brower. 

4 Harry Brower. 

5 Laura Brower. 

6 Hubert Brower. 

7 Helen Brower. 

II. Margaretta Farmar, daughter of Robert Adolphus Far- 
mar, married John Turner Lackey, of Northumberland County, 
Virginia, and had eight children : 

1 Robert Farmar Lackey, married Miss Lloyd, of Alexandria, 
Va., their only descendant of whom the writer can learn 
being Mrs. Harold Snowden, of Alexandria. 

2 Milton Lackey, served in the Civil War for four years, and 
had an honorable record as an officer of the 40th Virginia 
Infantry. He married Miss Travis, of Virginia, and had 
five children, of whom the writer has learned nothing but 
their names : 

1 Roberta Lackey. 

2 Farmar Lackey. 

3 Margaretta Lackey. 

4 Hubert Lackey. 

5 Robert Farmar Lackey. 

3 Caroline Virginia Lackey, married Joseph de Shields Basye 
of Northumberland Co., Virginia, and had one child: 

1 Adelaide Pawling Basye, who married Warrington 
Crane King, of Norfolk, Va. At the breaking out of 
the Civil War, when he was just fifteen years old, 
Mr. King joined the " Norfolk Light Artillery Blues," 
and served through the war, seeing four years of hard 
service in General A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Vir- 
ginia. Many of Mr. King's comrades have told the 
writer that no braver nor more gallant boy ever wore 
the gray. The writer had the good fortune to know 
Mr. King intimately, in Washington, where he lived 
subsequent to the war, engaged in a successful busi- 



MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 97 

ness. He was a cultivated, intelligent, and loveable 
man, devoted to his family and friends, who in return 
loved and esteemed him to the full measure. He died 
in Washington in 1903. They had two sons: 

1 Charles Kirby King, a nautical draftsman in 
Cramp's Shipyards, Chester, Penna., who married 
Henrietta Thorpe Griffith, of Baltimore, Md. 
They have one child: 

1 Virginia Basyc King. 

2 Edwin Fitzgerald King. 

4- Margaret Lackey, married Dr. Prestly Nelms, and had 
three children : 

1 Audubon Nelms, who was named in honor of the great 
naturalist, whose wife, Lucy Blakcwell, was a school- 
girl friend of his grandmother, Margaretta Farmar, 
in Berk's County, Penna. 
ii John Edwin Nelms. 

8 Catherine Downing Nelms, married R. H. Blundon, of 
Northumberland Co., Va. 

5 Oscar Lackey, Chief Engineer, U. S. Navy. In opposition 
to the wishes of his family, at the breaking out of the Civil 
War, he remained in the United States service, and served 
through the war. He married Miss Stone of Norfolk, Va., 
and had one son : 

1 Henry Ellis Lackey, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. 
Navy. 

6 Milford Lackey, married Miss Laurason, of Baltimore 
County, Md., and left three children: 

1 Elizabeth Carroll Lackey, married Charles S. Abel, of 
Baltimore. 

2 Margaret Virginia Lackey. 

3 Oscar F. Lackey. 

7 Randolph Lackey, died young. 

8 Logan Lackey, served in Kirkpatrick's Battery in the Con- 
federate Army, in General Early's command, for four 
years. He married Miss Betts, of Virginia, and had several 
children. 



APPENDIX 






APPENDIX 

MAJOR ROBERT FARMAR 

This sketch of Major Robert Farmar, and his son-in-law, 
Captain John Louis Barde, was prepared and kindly contrib- 
uted by Mr. George Brooke of Birdsboro, Penna., to be used 
in this work at t lie discretion of the author. The article is so 
instructive and the incidents recounted so interesting that the 
writer feels compelled to insert it in full, and he is certain the 
reader will approve his action. 

"When quite young. Major Farmar was sent to England 
to receive his education, and remained there until he was nearly 
twenty years of age, when he returned to America. In 1740 
he entered the military service of New Jersey, and, with a 
company raised by himself and which he commanded, joined 
an expedition against the Spaniards in the South. He was 
commissioned captain, August 5, 1740, and embarked at Bur- 
lington, New Jersey, in September, but did not sail until the 
following month for the West Indies, where he served in Colo- 
nel Goodie's regiment. On June 19, 1744, he obtained a cap- 
taincy in the 19th Foot, which command he retained until 
June 2, 1761, when he was promoted to a Major in the 34th 
Foot, known as the Cumberland Regiment, and served the 
following years against the Havanas. (From the New Jersey 
Historical Society, vol. iv. ) In 1763 he was sent against 
Mobile, and on October 2 he took possession of the city in the 
name of his British Majesty, and remained there until 1765. 
During the year 1765, he left for the Illinois Country, and 
arrived opposite St. Louis in December of the same year, re- 

101 



102 THOMAS AND ANNE BII/LOPP FARMAE 

lieving Captain Sterling, who had been in command. He cap- 
tured the city and became military governor of the Illinois 
Country, which had been claimed by France. (New York 
Colonial Documents, vol. vii.) It is supposed that he held 
this post until November 23, 1768, when he retired from the 
Army and went to West Florida, residing in Pensacola. Major 
Farmar had acquired large possessions of land in the South, 
and this was probably the cause of his returning there. These 
properties consisted of a square in the center of Mobile, in 
the middle of which was his residence ; and other lots in Mo- 
bile ; part of Dauphin Island in the Bay ; two plantations on 
the Tombigbee River, containing 1260 acres, with a handsome 
residence on one of them ; another on the Tensaw ; and also a 
tract of 8,000 acres of timber land on the east side of Mobile 
Bay, granted to Major Farmar by the Choctaw Indian Chiefs 
for establishing a ferry. In addition to the above he had land 
in Louisiana, viz. : 3,000 acres near Natchez, and 2,000 acres 
near Baton Rouge, then occupied by a Mr. Skipwith. 

"Major Farmar was married to Mary Anderson, of York- 
shire, England, in 1766. He died in Pensacola in 1779, leav- 
ing his wife with the following children : Anne Billopp, Robert 
Adolphus, Mary Elizabeth, Catharine Louisa, and Thomas. 

" Major Farmar was a great favorite with the Indians of 
Florida. He always treated them with the greatest hospitality 
frequently entertaining the Chiefs at his table. They called 
him, in their language, ' The King of the Choctaws.' He also 
entertained distinguished men from the North, and other lo- 
calities. John Bertram, the naturalist, who founded Bertram 
Gardens, near Philadelphia, made Farmar's house his home 
for months at a time, when he was examining and collecting 
specimens in Florida. 

" At this time, while the war for the Independence of the 
United States was keeping the English Army and Navy en- 
gaged, Spain took advantage of this condition to try to retake 
Florida, and sent over a large body of troops under Don 
Galvez for that purpose. Among the English sent to oppose 
them was a young officer, Lieutenant John Louis Barde, act- 



APPENDIX 103 

ing as Captain of the 60th Royal American Regiment, and 
stationed at Pensacola. He was quartered at the house of 
Mrs. Farmar, and after a while Captain Barde and Anne 
Billopp, her oldest daughter, became lovers, but, owing to her 
extreme youth, Mrs. Farmar ignored the affair. Not to be 
defeated, they quietly procured a marriage license from Gov- 
ernor Chester, and by the Chaplain of the Regiment, they 
were quietly married under a large tree in the woods. The 
young groom could not purchase a wedding ring in Pensa- 
cola, so he cut one out of a gold guinea. About three weeks 
after this secret wedding, a dispute arose at the dinner table 
between Anne and some of the younger children. Captain 
Barde sided with his wife, and Mrs. Farmar with much in- 
dignation inquired by what right he interfered in her house- 
hold. " By right of a husband," came the reply, producing 
marriage certificate and license. Angry as Mrs. Farmar most 
justly was, she could do naught, as all was in due form, so in a 
little time, when her anger wslb cooled, she gave a party and 
introduced the young couple to her friends. 

Hut, while this love affair and marriage were going on, 
the Spanish Army had again conquered the Province of Florida. 
All the English troops were prisoners of war, and the flag 
of Castile and Leon once again floated where the proud banner 
of St. George had been unfurled for some dozen years. After 
the surrender the Spanish Commander made Mrs. Farmar's 
house his headquarters, and used all his influence and persua- 
sion to induce her to remain, promising all protection to her 
young family, and her large landed possessions, from the laws 
of Spain. The Spanish Commanders were most anxious for 
the law abiding English settlers to stay with them, but Mrs. 
Farmar said she could not live where any other flag than the 
Red Cross of England was flying. 

" Captain Barde was exchanged and ordered to Charles- 
ton, as the British still held possession of that place. His wife 
accompanied him, and also Mrs. Farmar and her other children. 
They remained in Charleston until it was given up to the 
United States troops. On the first day of April, 1782, the last 



104? THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

British man-of-war left the harbor at Charleston, in which 
vessel sailed Mrs. Farmar and her family, this being her last 
opportunity of getting to England. On this day also was born 
her first grandchild, Robert George Barde. Loath as Mrs. 
Farmar was to leave her daughter, a young mother, she had 
no option. Tearful and sad was the parting of the mother and 
daughter, who were never again to meet in this world. 

" Soon all the English troops were ordered to New York, 
Mrs. Barde accompanying her husband. The next year, when 
she saw the English fleet leave New York, she was truly a 
stranger in a strange land. All her relations (and they were 
quite numerous in New York and its vicinity) were loyal to 
England, many of them having gone there, but Captain Barde 
remained in America, as he thought there was a better pros- 
pect of success here than in the old country. After peace 
was declared between England and the United States, he had 
himself put on half pay, and remained until England had de- 
clared war against France, when by proclamation, all English 
officers on half pay in America, were ordered to report at 
Halifax. He then sold his commission, and remained in this 
country. 

" It is proper here to relate the family history of Captain 
John Louis Barde. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 
1756. At the age of fourteen, he left his home and went to 
England to obtain a military education. Through the influence 
of his cousins, the Prevosts, he obtained an appointment as 
cadet in the Royal Military College at Woolwich. At the age 
of eighteen he received his commission as ensign, and some- 
time later as lieutenant. His ancestors belong to the Prevost 
family, this name being changed to Barde by one of his an- 
cestors who took the name of the woman he married, which 
was then sometimes done. Probably this was a descendant 
of Jean de la Barde, for many years a representative of France 
in Switzerland. The Prevost family and their ancestors, the 
Mallets, trace their family back to the Crusaders, where one 
of this name was a distinguished leader, and was rewarded with 
high honors. They resided in Geneva, Switzerland. Several 



APPENDIX 105 

of the family came to this country early, and settled in Hunter- 
don Co., New Jersey, the place being called Frenchtown, from 
the many French settlers there. Captain Barde and his sons 
frequently visited them there. 

" Mrs. Barde had relations, the Farmars, in New York and 
on Staten Island, where they had a large grant of land, but 
in a short time they came to Philadelphia, thinking there was 
a better opening there for some business, and here also were 
settled relatives of the Farmar family. Jasper Farmar had 
purchase d ",,000 acres of land from William Penn, in the town- 
ship of White Marsh, in Montgomery County. Edward Far- 
mar, one of his sons, gave the land and helped build St. Thomas 
Church, and many of the family are buried in the adjoin- 
ing graveyard. They were intimate with William Penn, and 
held some offices in Philadelphia which required their pres- 
sence in that city. No doubt Captain Barde and his wife and 
small son went there first, but we next find them living at 
Spring Mill in 1784, where their son, Samuel, was born on 
March 3, in that year. 

" It may be possible that Captain Barde was attracted to 
that place by a Frenchman who had purchased a large tract 
of land there, and built a large stone house, still standing. This 
Frenchman was a man of some distinction, and undertook to 
cultivate grapes for making wine, which proved a failure. The 
next place we hear of the Bardes, they are living at Moore 
Hall, a fine residence on the Perkiomen Creek, a short distance 
from its mouth on the Schuylkill, and with a beautiful view 
of the Valley Hills in front. Their daughters, Mary and 
Elizabeth, were born there, the former March 25, 1786, and 
the latter March 18, 1788. Their next move was to Birdsboro, 
an iron works on the Schuylkill about 50 miles from Phila- 
delphia, which works Captain Barde rented in 1789. He car- 
ried on the works under lease for eight years, and then 
purchased them together with about 2.200 acres of woodland 
from the Mark Bird estate. 

" Captain Barde died at Birdsboro in 1799, leaving his 
widow and seven children ; the oldest, Robert, aged about 17 



106 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 

years, and the youngest three, born at Birdsboro, viz.: John 
Louis, March 31, 1791 ; Jane, February 7, 1794, and Anne 
Billopp, born June 30, 1796. 

" As before stated, the widow of Major Farmar, with her 
children, sailed from Charleston for England in 1782, leav- 
ing Mrs. Barde with her husband in this country. The names 
of these children were Robert Adolphus, Mary Elizabeth, 
Catharine Louisa, and Thomas. When these children grew 
up, they all returned to this country, except Thomas, who en- 
tered the British Navy, and died a boy at sea. Robert Adol- 
phus, when he was grown up, entered the English Army, but 
when quite a young man he sold his commission, and came to 
this country to be near his sister at Birdsboro. He married 
a daughter of Judge Pawling of Norristown. He built a stone 
house at Birdsboro, on what was called Farmar's Hill, which 
house is still standing. He had several children, one of whom 
married Daniel Brower of Norristown. After residing here 
for several years, Farmar went to England, supposedly to 
recover some property, and was never heard from after he left 
this country. 

" The next child, Mary Elizabeth, married a French noble- 
man, Count Louis de Grasse de Vaubercy. They lived in Mo- 
bile, and endeavored to recover some of the Farmar property, 
but with little success. Their descendants are still living there 
or in New Orleans. 

" Catharine Louisa married Count Otto Vautile Barbaree, 
and lived in New York. 

" Regarding the Farmar property, the titles were very 
much mixed up, as the country had been in the possession of 
the Spaniards several years. Powers of attorney had been given 
several times to act for the heirs, and Robert, eldest son of 
Captain Barde, made Mobile his residence to carry on the 
suits, but disagreements with De Vaubercy prevented any joint 
action. Although the United State Courts awarded these lands 
to the Farmar heirs, the Spanish claims, and the expensive law 
suits prevented any title being secured to them. 

" Birdsboro is among the old iron works of the country. 



APPENDIX 107 

William Bird, an Englishman, took up land and built forges 
here in 1740. His son, Mark Bird, succeeded him, built Hope- 
well Furnace, and extended his boundary to over 10,000 acres. 
He owned other works and properties, and was quite a wealthy 
man. The disturbance of business by the Revolution, and 
the monetary troubles after its close, brought about his fail- 
ure. His property and works had to be sold to satisfy his 
creditors, and his old mansion house, built in 1750, together 
with the farm and woodbind, amounting to about 1,400 acres, 
was sold to Matthew Brooke in 1796. Soon after Hopewell 
Furnace was purchased by Thomas Brooke and Matthew 
Brooke, and their brother-in-law, Daniel Buckley, with the 
woodland belonging to it. After Captain Barde's death his 
property came into the possession of Matthew Brooke, and 
now nearly all this property of the Birds came into the hands 
of the Brookes. It will be well, therefore, to look back into the 
history of the Brooke family, from their landing in this 
country. 

" The Brookes came from Yorkshire, England, John, and 
his wife Frances, and two sons, .lames and Matthew, the latter 
a minor, coming over on the ship Brittania, in the latter part 
of 1698. They left an elder son, George, and two married 
daughters in England. A contagious disease broke out on the 
ship, and it was not permitted to come into Philadelphia, but 
was sent to the New Jersey side of the river. John Brooke 
and his wife were quartered in the house of one Will Cooper 
of Cooper's Point, and died there, soon after their arrival. 
They were buried in the graveyard at Haddonfield, New Jersey. 
His will shows that he left considerable property in England 
to those he left behind him, and the inventory of goods they 
brought with them included everything necessary in a new 
country, with articles of furniture and a maid servant (valued 
at 12 pounds in the inventory) showing that they were ac- 
customed to a comfortable life at home. Before embarking 
to America, John Brooke had purchased 1,500 acres of land 
of William Penn to be taken anywhere between the Delaware 
and Susquehanna rivers, where vacant land could be found. 



108 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAK 

" James and Matthew, after the death of their father, took 
up land in Limerick Township, Mongomery Co., where they 
settled, James on the right side of the road from Philadelphia, 
and Matthew on the left, nearly a mile apart. Matthew mar- 
ried Anne Evans. He presented the land for the Limerick 
Meeting House, and graveyard, where all the early Brookes 
were buried. Matthew died in 1720, leaving four children, 
William, George, John, and Matthew. 

" Matthew 2nd married Sarah Reese and died at Birdsboro 
in 1806, aged eighty-seven years. He had nine children, one 
of them being Matthew 3rd, who purchased the Iron Works, 
and married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Louis Barde, 
and Anne Billopp, daughter of Major Farmar. Matthew 
Brooke's sister Sarah, married Daniel Buckley, who also be- 
came a partner in the purchase of Hopewell Furnace. 

" Matthew Brooke married Elizabeth Barde, and a few years 
after, his nephew, Charles Brooke, married Jane Barde, and 
their mother, Anne Billopp Barde, made her home with the 
latter, first at Joanna Furnace, and afterwards at Hibernia 
Iron Works. Matthew Brooke had five children. Two daugh- 
ters died young, and two sons, Edward and George, succeeded 
their father in the iron business, and extended the works until 
now they give employment to about 1,000 men, and the place 
has grown to a town of 2,500 inhabitants. 

" Edward married Annie M. Clymer, a descendant of the 
family of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

" George married Mary B. Irwin, daughter of John H. 
Irwin of Philadelphia, and great-granddaughter of Frederick 
Augustus Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the House in the first 
Congress. 

" The youngest, Elizabeth, married Hiester Clymer, once 
candidate for Governor of this State, and one of its representa- 
tives in congress. 

" Charles Brooke, who married Jane Barde, had ten children. 
The oldest one married Clement B. Grubb of Mt. Hope Fur- 
nace. Louisa, the next daughter, married Cadwaladcr Wick- 



APPENDIX 109 

ersham. The latter, when she was a child, was a pet with her 
Grandmother Barde, and, as she grew up, was always with 
her and learned a great deal of her family history, which she 
stored away in her mind, and on paper. 

" The writer of this paper (Mr. George Brooke) is greatly 
indebted to her for much of it, having procured a written copy 
of it during her life." 



THE FALL OF PENSACOLA, 1781. 

From the Journal of Robert Adolphus Farmar, Ensign, 60th 
Regiment of Foot, " Royal Americans." 

"Friday, March 9th, 1781. Appeared in sight a Spanish 
Fleet, consisting of thirty-two sail of vessels. The same night 
a number of Spaniards landed on St. Rose Island. 

' Monday 12th. The enemy erected batteries on Rose Is- 
land, which compelled the Mentor and Port Royal (British ves- 
sels) to quit the station. Some of their vessels attempted to 
come over the bar, but put back again. 

" Saturday 17th. The enemy attempted to land at the 
mouth of the Perdido under cover of two row galleys, but the 
Indians in sight prevented them. 

" Monday 19th. About two o'clock p. m. twenty-two sail 
of the enemy's vessels came over the bar and passed the fort at 
the cliffs without receiving any damage. 

" Tuesday 20th. Captain Stevens arrived with a party of 
Indians, informs us that yesterday they fell in with an enemy's 
boat and crew consisting of eleven men ten of whom were 
killed and one brought in a prisoner. About five o'clock, Gen- 
eral Galvez, the Spanish Commander, sent a flag of truce to 
General Campbell, the English Commander, to the purpose as 
Lord Albermarle sent one at the siege of the Havana, which 
was not to burn the shipping, King's Buildings, or town, and 
threatened, etc., . . . General Campbell answered that the 
threats of an enemy are not to be minded. 

" Friday 23rd. The sixteenth and sixtieth regiments evacu- 
ated the town of Pensacola, and took their station at the two 
redoubts. 

" Saturday 24th. Mr. Stevenson went with a flag of truce 

no 



APPENDIX HI 

from the Governor to the Don, concerning the town, women 
and children. 

" Sunday 25th. Nine o'clock, a. m. The Indians brought 
in twenty-three horses belonging to the enemy, and two scalps. 

* Tuesday 27th. Forty-two sail of the Spanish Fleet took 
their station between Moore and Neils houses. 

" Thursday 29th. About nine o'clock some of the Indians 
came in and say they had a brush yesterday afternoon the other 
side of Sutton's Lagoon with the enemy and drove in the piquet 
three times, upon which their grenadiers turned out and fired 
twice at them, and retired. Four of the Indians are wounded. 

" Friday 30th. About nine o'clock an advance piquet under 
the command of Captain Kennedy of the Maryland Loyalists, 
was obliged to retreat as the enemy was marching down upon 
them, and began to fire their field pieces. At 10 o'clock, 
Captain Kennedy's party marched down to Neils' meadows, a 
mile and a quarter from our works. About two o'clock the 
Indians went there also, and attacked the main body of the 
enemy, and kept up a very heavy fire until five o'clock, at which 
time tluv w. iv supported by Captain Johnston, with two field 
pieces, and one Howitzer ; also by fifty negroes. Lieutenant 
Meiggs went with twenty-five men of the Sixtieth to cover the 
field pieces. On account of the heavy fire, they received from 
Captain Johnston, the Indians and negroes, they retired under 
cover of their shipping and galleys. At half past-five o'clock, 
Captain Johnston and Lieutenant Meiggs returned. The Indi- 
ans came in and brought in with them four of the enemy's 
drums and a number of scalps. The inhabitants of the town 
say that they saw a shell from the howitzer fall in the midst 
of thirteen boats, full of men coming on shore, which made 
them return again to their ships. We had one Indian killed, 
two slightly wounded, and one negro wounded in the foot. 

" Monday April 2nd. The enemy this evening embarked 
all their troops. 

" Tuesday 10th. One of the Waldecks who was taken at 
Baton Rouge, and had enlisted in the regiment of Louisiana, 
deserted and came and joined his regiment. He says that the 



112 THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 

enemy is badly off for provisions, two men getting only one 
pound of meat per day. 

" Monday 16th. B. Jones and A. Francis arrived with about 
ninety Choctaws. The enemy threw up a work in a plain one 
mile and a half from us. 

" Tuesday 17th. Eleven o'clock a. m. an Express arrived 
from St. Augustine, with duplicates of the letters that were re- 
ceived sometime ago, informing us that Lord Cornwallis had an 
engagement with the rebels at Hillsborough, North Carolina, 
and had killed three thousand of them. A party of the Creeks 
that came with the express took a boat belonging to the enemy 
at Deer Point. They killed three of the crew and took one 
prisoner. This afternoon five negroes took a Spaniard at Gull 
Point. 

" Tuesday 24th. Between seven and eight o'clock, a body 
of about three hundred of the enemy were seen advancing. 
Upon which the Indians went, but they retired from the enemy's 
fire. Upon which Captain Byrd, with the Sixtieth, advanced 
to within 70 yards and gave them a volley. When they re- 
treated very precipitately. Dawes arrived from Carolina and 
brought an account that Lord Cornwallis had totally defeated 
the rebels at Guilford, killing two thousand of them, and tak- 
ing a number of cannon and stores, and prisoners, upon which 
at eight o'clock we fired a feu de joie. 

" Wednesday 25th. About seven o'clock a. m. an advance 
piquet had a skirmish with the enemy and beat them off. 

" Monday 30th. A French frigate came over the bar, and 
joined the enemy's fleet inside. 

" Thursday, May 3rd. The enemy fired during the day five 
hundred and thirty-four shot, and one hundred and eighty-six 
shells. They killed one of the men of the Sixteenth and 
wounded one of the seamen belonging to the Port Royal, but did 
very little damage beside. Our people picked up today about 
five hundred shot, some of which we returned to the Dons. 

" Friday, 4th. We began to fire upon the enemy from the 
advanced redoubt, at their battery, and the people at work in 
in the front. Twelve o'clock ninety-four Provincials under the 



APPENDIX 113 

command of Major Mac Donald, and Waldecks, under the 
command of Lieutenant Colonel De Horn, to support them, 
stormed the works in front of the advanced redoubt, burnt 
their works, and spiked six pieces of cannon — eight and four 
pounds. The enemy fired one hundred and seventy-five shot, 
and eighty-seven shells during the day. 

" Saturday 5th. The enemy's ships on the outside of Rose 
Island are gone off, about six o'clock. Two deserters from 
the French train of artillery came in, who informed us that the 
enemy's loss yesterday amounted to thirty killed, among which 
is a Major of the Catalonia volunteers. The enemy fired dur- 
ing the day, twenty-five shot, and forty-three shells. The 
enemy threw a few shells tonight. 

" Sunday, 6th. The shot and shell fired by the enemy dur- 
ing the day, amounted to five hundred and sixty-three shot, and 
two hundred and six shells. 

"Monday 7th. Deserter came in from the enemy. He is 
a German, and belongs to the Regiment of Flanders, informs 
us that the Dons are very badly off for provisions, and that 
Don Galvez, and the French General do not agree. He, (the 
French General) told Galvez that if we did not surrender on 
the 8th instant, he would withdraw his troops and vessels and 
go upon the expedition he was destined for; and he further says 
that a shot from us yesterday killed one Captain, one lieutenant 
and twelve privates of the Catalonia volunteers. Yesterday 
one of the Pennsylvania Loyalists attempted to desert, but 
was taken and brought in by the Indians, when he received five 
hundred lashes and was drummed out of the regiment, with his 
hands tied behind him, and a large label pinned to his breast 
with his crime. He was escorted close to the Spanish lines and 
left to his fate, but he soon returned. The whole of the Indians 
went out about half past twelve o'clock to endeavor to get upon 
the rear of the enemy's encampment. They would not suffer a 
white man to go with them. They returned in a short time with 
ten scalps. Our fire from the advanced redoubt did the enemy 
a great deal of damage to their works in our front. 

" Tuesday, 8th. About nine o'clock, a. m. a shell from the 



114 THOMAS AND ANNE BII/LOPP FARMAR 

enemy's front battery was thrown in at the door of the maga- 
zine of the advanced redoubt, as the men were receiving powder, 
which blew up and killed forty seamen belonging to His Maj- 
esty's ships the Mentor and Port Royal, and forty-five men of 
the Pennsylvania Loyalists were killed by the same explosion. 
There were a number of men wounded. Captain Byrd, with 
seventy men of the sixtieth regiment immediately went up to 
the advanced redoubt, and brought off two field pieces, one 
howitzer and a number of wounded men, but was obliged to 
return, as a great quantity of shell was lying about filled. At 
ten o'clock the enemy took possession of the remains of the 
advanced redoubt, and kept up from it a very heavy fire of 
small arms and cannon from their flank battery upon the center 
redoubt, which wounded Lieutenant Wood and eighteen men of 
the Sixtieth Regiment, and twelve seamen, a number of whom 
died, as they were mostly wounded in the head. About two 
o'clock p. m. hoisted a flag of truce from Fort George, and 
offered to surrender upon capitulation. Lieutenant Mieggs 
of the Sixtieth Regiment, went as a hostage from us, and we 
received Lieutenant Kinney of the Regiment of Hibernia from 
the enemy. 

" Wednesday, 9th. All day settling terms. 

" Thursday, 10th. About five o'clock p. m., we surrendered 
to the arms of Spain. The Spanish Grenadiers, under the com- 
mand of Don Bernardo de Galvez, took possession of Fort 
George and the line, and sixty French Chasseurs of the center 
redoubt. 

" Friday, 11th. The Corps, under the command of Lieut- 
enant General Campbell, encamped on the east side of the 
town. 

" June 1st. Embarked on board of the Spanish transports. 

" June 4th. Sailed from Pensacola. 

" June 20th. Arrived at Havana, where we remained till 
the 30th to take provisions and water. Sailed for New York." 



INDEX 



INDEX 



Abel, Charles S., 97 
Adams, .John, 58 
Albermarle, Lord, 110 
Al ferry, Thomas, 11 
Allen, Prances Billopp, 67 

I I irriet Debb, <>7 
Henry II., 67 
Lucius A., 67 

Wy.it t II., (IT 

Allis, Margery Watson, 66 

Anderson, Mary, so, 82, 102 

Andrade, General, 63 
Andms, Bdmond, .'-', 33, M, 28 
Ashby, John, M 
Aubrey, Governor, 77 
Auchtmuty, Doctor, 56 

Babcock, Alice v.. 94 

Baer, Nellie Oliver, 88 
Baker, Bessie Kelso, 66 

Eva Graff, 66 

John Paul, 66 

Somerville Nbrris, 66 

Sophia Howard, 66 
Barbaree, Otto Yautile, 80, 106 
Barchfleld, Mr., 35 
Barde, Anne Billopp, 83, 90, 105, 
106, 108 

Eliza, 83 

Elisabeth, 84, 108 

Elizaheth Brooke, 90, 105 

Ellen, 83 

Jane Brooke, 83, 85 

Jane, 108 

J a red, 83 

Jean de la, 104 

John, 85 

John Lewis, 80, 81, 82, 83, 90, 101, 
102, 103, 104. 105, 106 

John Louis, 101, 102, 103, 104, 
105, 106, 108 



Mary, 84, 105 

Robert, 90, 105, 106 

Robert George, 83, 104 

Samuel, 83, 105 
Bartram, William, 79 
I> asse, Jeremiah, 36 
Basye, Adelaide Pawling, 96 

Joseph de Shields, 96 
Bate, William B., (i9, 70 
Batsford, Edward, 11 
Bayard, Doctor, 60 
Beacham, Marion C, 68 
Beall, Ella Josephine, 86 

Ethel Gruhb, 86 

Florence, 86 

Joseph Bond, 86 

Maria San ford, 86 

Mary Lilly, 86 
Beekman, William, 25 
Beerman, William, 25 
Hrrgerd, Gustavus A., 63 
Berry, William, 71 
Bertram, John, 102 
Betts, Miss, 97 
Bevan, Evelyn Mary, 56 

James Johnstone, 56 
Billopp, Abigail, 68 

Anne, 17 

Archibald, 70 

Barnard, 17 

Charles Farmar, 71 

Christopher, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 
39, 40, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 
60, 62, 64, 70, 71 

Elinor, 71 

Elizabeth, 54, 60 

Elizabeth Farmar, 62 

Eugenia, 53 

Frances, 62, 64 

Francis Wyatt, 70 



117 



118 



THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAE 



James, 17, 19 

Jane, 60 

Jaspar, 57 

Jaspar Farmar, 54, 55 

John, 62 

John Willett, 60, 61 

John Moore, 62 

John Sappington, 71 

Joseph, 19, 30 

Katharine, 28, 54, 60 

Katharine Carnan, 71 

Katharine Risteau, 69, 71 

Lisa Brooke, 71 

Louisa, 60 

Mary, 28, 29, 30, 54, 55, 60 

Mary Elinor, 71 

Mary Lawrence, 62, 64 

Rachel, 54 

Robert Carnan, 70 

Sarah, 54, 55, 60 

Thomas, 38, 39, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 
60, 62, 63, 64, 68, 75 

Thomas Farmar, 62, 68, 70, 71 

William Wyatt, 69, 70 
Binke, Sarah, 11 
Bird, Mark, 107 

William, 107 
Black, Jane Billopp, 61 

John, 60, 61 

William, 60 
Blakeney, Colonel, 76 
Blakewell, Lucy, 97 
Blundon, K. H.. 97 
Boudinot, Mr., 57 
Bowden, John, 25, 20 
Bowers, Richard Farmar, 13 

William, 13 
Bragg, General, 69 
Brooke, Anne Farmar, 84 

Charles, 8.3, 108 

Charles Edward, 89 

Charles Grubb, 90 

Christine Gay, 90 

Edward. 84, B5, 108 

Elizabeth, 10* 

Elizabeth Barde, 88 

Elizabeth Mary, 85 

Frances, 107 

Frederick, 85 



Gay, 90 

George, 85, 101, 107, 108 

George Clymer, 85 

George W., 71 

Helen, 89 

Helen Theresa, 90 

Henry Clay, 90 

Horace Louis, 90 

James, 107, 108 

Jane Barde, 88 

John, 85, 107, 108 

John Louis Barde, 85 

Louisa Catherine, 88, 108 

Mary, 85 

Mary Blake, 71 

Maskell Ewing, 85 

Matthew, 84, 107, 108 

Rev. Mr., 29 

Rhoda, 85 

Robert Clymer, 85 

Robert Edward, 84 

Samuel L., 71 

Sarah, 108 

Sarah Reese, 84 

Thomas Reese 89, 107 

William, 108 
B rower, Abby Anne Turner, 95 

Anne Billopp, 94, 95 

Daniel Rife, 93, 106 

Daniel Roberts, 95 

Daniel Roberts, Jr., 95 

Earl, 96 

Ella Jane, 9.3 

Frances Rife, 95 

Harrv, 96 

Helen, 96 

Hubert, 96 

James Farmar, 95 

Laura, 95, 96 

Margaretta Farmar, 95 

Mary Louisa, 95 

Noah Billopp, 9.3 

Rachel Pawling, 93 

Robert Farmar, 96 

Unis Anne, 95 
Brown, Anne, 7 

William, 7 
Browne, Governor, 79 
Brvan, William, 28 



INDEX 



119 



Buckley, Daniel, 107, 108 

1 la met, 85 
Burt, Alfred Farmar, 89 

Alice, 89 

Arthur, 89 

Arthur Armsl rang, 89 

Charles Brooke, B9 

Edith Brooke, 89 

Eliza Lehman, 89 
Horace Brooke, 89 

Jean B ■<■<:■ 
Jean Brooke, 89 
Mary, 89 

Mary Theodora, 89 

Maxwell St rut hers, 89 

Nathaniel, 88, 89 

Byrd, Captain, 11.', lit 



Campbell, General, 110, ill 
Carleton, General, 41 
Carmack, Sarah, IS 
Carnan, Charles, 68 
Carnan, Christopher, <<* 

Katharine Risteau, 68 
Carter, Josephine, 95 

Mary Louisa, !>.» 

Oscar, "> 

Oscar Charles Sumner, 95 
Cayle, Mr., 10 
Chambers, Elisabeth, BS 

Chapman. Ward. 58 
Charlton. Richard, 
Charnock, Mr.. 19, 20, M 
Chester, Governor, 79, 103 
Chilton, Mary, 65 
Claypoole, James, 10 
Clerk, John, 5 
Clingan, Louisa, 85 
Clowes, William L., 20 
Clymer, Anne, 84 

Annie M„ 108 

Edward, 85 

Elisabeth, 85 

Heister, 85, 108 
Codenham, Rohert, 25 
Collier, John, 25 
Comstock, Edith Watts, 87 
Cooke, Thomas, 10 



Cooper, Thomas, 91 

Will, 107 
Cornwallis, Lord, 112 
Cosby, Captain, 76 

Governor, 38 
Couthoui, Gertrude, 66 
Crogan, Mary Angelica, 67 
Cromwell, Oliver, 9 

Thomas, 5 
Curzon, Mary, 8 

Thomas, 8 

Daly, Joan, 11 

Dandridge, Williams Brooke, 90 

On is, Anna, 83 

Colonel, 55 
Dawson, Albert, 11 
de Galvez, Bernardo, 79, 81, 92, 110, 

112, 114 
De Horn, Lieutenant-Colonel, 112 
De Lancy, Colonel, 46 
De Vauhercey, John Louis, 80 

Louis de Grasse, 106 

Louis Le Gras, 80, 106 
Dcdgc, Elizabeth, 89 
Donohue, Thomas, 63 

Drew, , 95 

Dungan, Thomas, 27 

Eachus, Charles, 84 

Edith, 84 

Harrold, 84 

Jennie, 84 

Louisa, 84 

Marion, 84 

Thomas, 84 

Thomas Norman, 84 

William, 83 
Elder, Frances Wyatt, 66 

George Howard, 66 
Elizabeth, Queen, 17 
Ellicott, Mr., 93 
Elliott, Andrew, 46 
Evans, Alice Vivian, 94 

Anne Brower, 95 

Anne Reese, 90 

Anne Sheafe, 83 

Blanch M., 94 

Cadwallader, 93, 94 



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Charles Brooke, 83, 90 
Charles Brower, 94 
Clement Brooke, 83 
Donald, 95 
Edward Brooke, 90 
Eliza Brooke, 90 
Frank, 83 
George, 83 
George Jones, 94 
Gertrude, 83 
Horace Barde, 83 
Howell, 83 
John, 90 
Louisa, 83 
Louisa Brooke, 83 
Margaretta Pawling, 94 
Mary, 83 
Nathan, 83 
Rachel Edna, 94 
Reese, 90 
Sarah, 90 
William Penn, 94 
Ewing, Cornelia, 84 

Farmar, Anne, 28, 39, 49 

Anne Billopp, 39, 75, 80, 82, 83, 
93, 102, 103, 108 

Anne (Billopp), 39, 45, 53 

Bridget, 4 

Brooke, 39 

Catharine Louisa, 102, 106 

Charles, 11 

Edward, 11, 12, 39, 85, 105 

Elizabeth, 11, 33, 39, 42, 55, 56 

George, 9, 10 
Jaspar, J., 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 

29, 34, 39, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 
55, 75, 85, 105 

Jaspar, Jr., 9, 10, 11, 12, 28, 33 

John, 9, 10, 11, 29, 39 

John, Jr., 9 

Katharine, 11, 12, 28, 33, 56 

Katharine Louisa, 80, 102, 106 

Margaret, 93 

Margaretta, 93, 96, 97 

Mary, 11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 39, 48 

Mary (Anderson), 103, 104, 106 

Mary Brooke, 40 

Mary Elizabeth, 80, 81, 102, 106 



Peter, 40, 46, 48, 49 

Rachel, 12, 56 

Richard, 13 

Robert, 39, 53, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 
80, 81, 82, 83, 90, 93, 101, 102, 
106 

Robert Adolphus, 80, 81, 90, 91, 
92, 93, 96, 102, 106, 110 

Richard Henry Kendrick, 10 

Samuel, 39, 57 

Sarah, 11, 12, 13, 56 

Thomas, 4, 11, 12, 17, 29, 30, 33, 
34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 45, 53, 54, 
62, 64, 75, 76, 102, 106 

William Penn, 39 
Farquhar, William, 42 
Farquarson, Francis, 63 
Fassitt, Anne, 90 

Francis, T., 90 
Fenwick, John, 24 
Fermor, Arabella, 8 

George, 8, 9 

Hatton, 8 

John, 7 

Juliana, 8 

Robert, 8, 9 
Fermour, Elizabeth, 3 

Emmotte, 4, 5 

Richard, 5, 6, 7 

Thomas, 4 

William, 3, 4, 5 
Ferris, John, 63 
Fischer, Maria Louise, 65 
Fisher, George, 11 
Francis, A., 112 
Franklin, Benjamin, 42, 58 
French, Anne Billopp, 40 

Christopher, 40, 41, 42 

Philip, 38, 40 

Gaither, Mary Ridgley, 65 
Gamble, Anthony, 9 

Mary, 9 
Garde, Alphea, 9 
Gardiner, James, 63 
Garrigues, Edward, 83 

Emily, 83 

Lewis, 83 
Gause, Ella, 84 



INDEX 



121 



(ieorge, Paul F., 63 

The Second, 36 
Goelet, Christopher Billopp, 56 

Peter, 56 

Thomas Farmar, 56 
Gordon, Thomas, 34 
Gorter, Nathan Ryno, 66 
Gouverneur, Ahraham, 48 

Mary (Lelshler), 48 
Gra\«s, Evelyn Wyatt, 65 

Rosewell, 65 

Rosewell Elizabeth, 65 

Sophia Anne, 65 
Greenwood, Richard Fleming, 84 

Walter, B4 

Walter Edward, - ■ 

Griffith, Henrietta Thorpe, 97 
Gross Domine, 49 
Grubb, Charles Brooke, 86 
(lenient Brooke, *"•, 108 

Daisy Elizabeth Brooke, 88 

Ella .lane, B6 

Harriet Hrookc, 86 

Henry Hates, 86 

Mary Lilly Brooke, 86 

Grundy, Byram, 64 

1 ranees Billopp, 64 

George Kerr, 63, 64 
Thomas Billopp, 64 

Haddoti, Hieliard, 45 
Hales, Mary, 9 
Hall, Anna, 67 

Daniel Sprigg, 67, 68 

Francis Billopp, 68 

Francis Winslow, 67 

Miles L., (i:{ 

Mr., 6 

William Edward Wyatt, 67 
Hamilton, Peter J., 77, 79 
Hawks, Doctor, J9 
Haxhall, Clara, 64 
Healy, Raymond, 71 
Hervey, Emmotte, 4 

Mr.,' 4 
Hesketh, Thomas, 8 
Highly, Sarah C, 95 
Holcomb, Mr., 24, 68 
Holliday, Anna, 70 



Hollingsworth, Sophia Louise, 65 
Holstein, Ella, 95 

George Meade, 95 

George W., 95 
Hood, General, 69 
Howard, Thomas, 9 
Howe, Lord, 58 
Hoy, Peter V., 95 
Huddy, Hugh, 34 
Hunter, Governor, 35, 36 

Idell, Anne Mary, 94 

Imans, John, 25, 30 

Inians, John, 30 

Injons, John, 26 

Irwin, John Heister, 86, 108 

Mary Baldwin, 85, 108 

Stephen, 86 

Stephen B., 86 

Jackson, Stonewall, 70 
Jamison, David, 36 
Janeway, Jacob, 42 
Jarvis, Abraham, 39 

Anne Farmar, 40 

Griselda, 40 

Hannah, 40 

John Abraham, 40 

Samuel Farmar, 39, 40 
Johnson, Charles, 63 
Johnston, Captain, 111 

Doctor, 35 

General, 69, 86 
Johnstone, Governor, 78, 79 
Jones, B., 112 

Barham Edward, 56 

Emily, 56 

Evelyn, 56 

Henry S., 56 

Hester, 56, 89 

John Thomas, 56 

Katharine, 66 

Lawrence, 56 

Lawrence John, 56 

Mary Louise, 65 

Maurice Herbert, 56 

Rachel Margaret, 56 

Willoughby, 56 

Willoughby John, 56 



122 



THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 



Kelly, Elizabeth, 95 

Kemp, Bishop, 68 

Kemper, Daniel, 63 

Kennedy, Captain, 111 

Kinney, Lieutenant, 114 

King, Charles Kirby, 97 
Edwin Fitzgerald, 97 
Virginia Basye, 97 
Warrington Crane, 96 

Kirby, Jane, 67 

Kniphausen, General, 58 

Kortright, Miss, 60 

Kreeland, Eliza, 68 

Lackey, Caroline Virginia, 96 

Elizabeth Carroll, 97 

Farmar, 96 

Henry Ellis, 97 

Hubert, 96 

John Turner, 96 

Logan, 97 

Margaret, 97 

Margaretta, 96 

Margaret Virginia, 97 

Milford, 97 

Milton, 96 

Oscar, 97 

Oscar F., 97 

Randolph, 97 

Roberta, 96 

Robert Farmar, 96, 97 
Laurason, Miss, 97 
Lawler, Mr., 80 
Lawrence, Effingham, 56 

Katharine Mary, 56 
Lee, Arthur, 84 

Blair, 84 

Brooke, 84 

Charles, 41, 42 

Fitzhugh, 70 
Lehman, Mary, 88 
Leishler, Jacob, 48 
Leominster, Baron, 8 
Leonard, Rachel, 55 

Samuel, 38, 39, 54 

Sarah, 54 
Lewis, Curtis, 81 

Curtis, Mrs., 80 

Edward S., 66 



Lincoln, William, 83 
Lloyd, Miss, 96 
Lockwood Edith, 66 

McAllister, George Washington, 67 

Rosella R., 67 
McClellan, General, 70 
McCorkle, Louisa, 84 
McCulloch, John, 84 
MacDonald, Major, 112 
McGill, Olive, 95 
Magruder, Virginia, 70 
Manton, Nathaniel, 45 
Mantor, George, 25, 26 
Marshall, Paulus, 27 
Marston, Ellen Winslow, 67 
Martin, Eliza Barde, 84 

Gillie Ogden, 84 

Helen, 84 

Henry Clay, 84 

Jane Barde, 84 

Jessie, 84 

John, 83 

John Locke, 84 

Louisa Brooke, 84 

Mary, 83 

Nellie, 95 
Mayow, Elizabeth, 11 

Helen, 11 

John, 11 

Martha, 11 

Philip, 11 
Meeh, Christina, 95 
Meiggs, Lieutenant, 111, 114 
Meyer, Henry, Jr., 48 
Michaux, Paul, 55 

Milborne, , 48 

Miller Christopher, 45, 46 

Christopher Billopp, 40 

Paul, 40 

Thomas, 48 
Miranda, Francisco, 63 
Montgomerie, John, 37 
Moore, Abigail, 62 

John, 62 
Morris, Heber Smith, 88 

Ira K., 17, 19, 30, 58, 60, 61 

Lewis, 34, 38, 40, 75 

Rhoda, 85 



INDEX 



123 



William, 8, 88 
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus, 

108 
Murphy, Mr., 49 
Murray, Julia, 88 

N'eiman, Sarah, 90 
N'clni , Aiiilulion, 97 

Catharine Downing, 97 

John Edwin, 97 

Prestly, 97 
Nelson, Lord, 10 
N'euh.ill, Alice, 67 

Donald, G7 

Henry ('.., 67 

I.il i, 67 
\iclmls, George, 92 
Noel, Margaret Elizabeth, 65 
Norris, Prances Wyatt, gg 

George Somerville, 65, 66 

Hannah, Gaither, 66 

Henry Franklin, 66 

Jessie, 66 

Jessie Somerville, 66 

Joseph Coutboui, 66 

Knrtharine I., 67 

Katharine Isabelle, 66 

Margaret A His, 66 

Mary Gordon, 66 

Richard, 66 

Richard Horton, 66 

Sophia Howard, 66 

Susan Voss, 66 

Whitton Evans, 66 

William Allis, 66 

William Wyatt, 65 
Norrysse, William, 3 

Orevan, Thebe, 11 

Paddock, Harriet, 61 

Morris V., 61 
Paine, Thomas, 61 
Paist, John D., 95 
Pawling, H., 92 

John, 91, 93, 106 

Margaret, 91, 93, 106 
Peck, Benjamin, 39 

Christina. 39 



Pelham, Henry, 76 
Penn, Thomas, 8 

William, 8, 10, 12, 33, 85, 105, 
107 
Phelps, Harriet, 89 
Pinhorn, John, 35 

Judge, 34, 35 
Plank, Ella, 89 
Pomfret, Earl of, 8, 9 

Lady Louisa, 9 
Pope, Alexander, 8 
Potts, Carrie C, 95 

Elisabeth Holstein, 95 

Ella Holstein, 95 

Helen Rutter, 95 

William W., 95 
Powlet, Katharine, 4 

William, 4 

Reading, John, 36 
Reese, Sarah, 108 
Rich, Fanny, 65 
Riley, Lewis Alsop, 89 

Jean Brooke, 89 

Henry Drinker, 89 
Robeson, Jonathan, 13 

Peter, 12, 13 
Robinson, Frances, 60 

Mary, 60 

Mr., 60 
Rodman, John, 38 
Rogers, Rev. Doctor, 49 

Robert, 11 
Ross, Alexander, 56 
Runacres, Alice, 94 

Dorothy, 94 

Harry, 14 

Helen, 94 
Rutledge, Edward, 58 

Savoy, Margaret of, 5 
Schaffer, Augusta, 90 
Seaman, Benjamin, 55, 58, 60 

Billopp, 60 

Edmund, 60 

Elizabeth, 55 

Henry, 60 

Jane, 60 

Jaspar, 60 



124 



THOMAS AND ANNE BILLOPP FARMAR 



Isaac, 46 
Shalcross, Mary, 83 
Sharon, Florence, 8 

Senator, 8 
Shaw, Margaret Ella, 70 
Shearer, Eliza, 95 
Shoemaker, Annie, 83 
Short, Major, 60 

William, 83 
Simcoe, Colonel, 58 
Skinner, Courtland, 57 

Mary, 29 

Susannah, 57 

Rev. William, 29 
Skipwith, Mr.. 102 
Smith, Arthur, 11 

Clement Gruhh, 87 

Daisy Emily, 88 

George Tucker, 86 

George Tucker, Jr., 86 

Governor, 58 

Heber L., 88 

Julia Comstock, 88 

L. Heber, 86, 87 

Mary Grubb, 88 

Richard, 38 

Robert, 86 

Stanley McDonald, 88 

William Howard, 88 
Snowden, Mrs. Harold, 96 
Somers, Will, 6 
Spotts, Harriet, 83 
Stelle, Eugenia, 53 
Stephens, John, 12, 33 
Sterling, Captain, 77, 102 
Stevens, Captain, 76, 110 
Stevenson, Mr., 110 
Stone, Miss, 97 
Sydney, Philip, 8 

Taylor, John M., 91 
Temple, John, 25 

Thomas, 25, 26 
Thayne, Nicholas, 5 
Thomas, Captain, 76 
Tiffany, George Peabody, 68 

George Peabody, Jr., 68 
Tilton, Marie, 13 
Townsend, Frances, 60 



Travis, Miss, 96 
Vaux, Maud, 7 

Nicholas, 7 
Vernon, Admiral, 76 
Victoria, Queen, 56 
von Holstein, Abby, 95 

Anne H., 95 

George Meade, Jr., 95 

Walbridge, Andrew, 11 
Wallace, John, 60 
Washburn, E. B., 61 
Washington, General, 41 
Wellington, Duke of, 56 
Wells, Henry, 11 
Wenman, Emmotte, 4 

Henry, 4 
West, John, 26 
Wentworth, General, 75, 76 
Wharton, Mitchell, 19 
White, Thomas Harrison, 90 

William, 90 
Whiteloe, Nicholas, 11 
Whitelow, John, 11 
Wickersham, Alice Morris, 88 

Cadwallader, 88, 108 

Helen Billopp, 88 

Josephine Mary, 88 

Paul Goddard, 88 
Wilkinson, Robert, 11 
Willett, Frances, 60 
Williams, Gay, 90 
Willis, Archdeacon, 60 

Rev. Cuthbert, 61 

John, 61 

Mary Billopp. 61 

Rev. Robert S., 61 

William Christopher, 61 
Wilson, Annette Josephine, 88 

David, 94 

Dorothy, 94 

Franklin Evans, 94 

Mildred, 94 

Thomas H., 94 
Winslow, Edward, 64, 65 

John, 65 

Mary, 64, 65 
Winter, William, 11 



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107 



Wolsey, Cardinal, 5 
Wood, Lieutenant, 114 
Wrenn, Christopher, 8 
Wyatt, Arthur Rich, 65 

Charles Handfield, 66, 68 

Christopher, 66 

Christopher A., 66, 67 

Christopher Billopp, 67 

Cornelia) 67 

Edward Winslow, 67 

Prances Billopp, 65, 67, 68 

James, 64 

James Bosley Noel, 65 

John Henry, 67 

John McVickar, 68 

Katharine Isabella, 66, 67 

Lisa, (is 

Marion Beacham, 68 



INDEX 125 

Mary Augusta, 66, 67 

Mary L., 65 

Mary Livingston, 67 

Merritt T., 67 

Rosa McAllister, 67 

Sophia Louise Hollingsworth, 65 

Thomas, 65 

Thomas James, 65 

William Edward, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68 

Yoe, John, 24 

York, Duke of, 18, 23 

Younge, Thomas, 11 

Zinn, Alice Wickersham, 88 
George Cadwalader, 88 
John Miller, 88 
Maurice Collins, 88 




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